If you measure a live show’s success by how happy to be alive it makes you, than Nashville’sDiarrhea Planet have the greatest live show on Earth. At this year’s South by Southwest, the tales circulating about their exploits reached Bill Brasky levels. When I saw them, I was blissfully unaware of their name; I was, however, convinced that whoever these kids were, I was going to make it my personal mission to see them live as many times as possible. Recently, they came to Brooklyn’s Shea Stadium, and Patrick Stickles, one of their most avowed fans,came onstage to sing “Born To Run”.

To enthuse about a band with the name Diarrhea Planet is to abandon dignity, and also to surrender to childish joyousness– which, you have to assume, is the point: They have four guitarists, three of whom seem to be playing the same power chords while the fourth finger-taps “Muppet Babies” versions of Van Halen solos. A Diarrhea Planet mp3 is not a Diarrhea Planet show, of course, but it is a pretty good approximation. On “Separations,” all the elements are here: the high-calorie, low-nutrition riffing, the purposefully cretinous singing, the infectious melodies, the pop-punk study-hall camaraderie.” Yeah, see? It’s not just me.

Stereogum says “Garage Swim is also a sonically richer and more varied experience than it has to be. It’s got halfway-to-Sabbath stoner-doom from JEFF The Brotherhood, churning surf-rock from King Khan with the Gris Gris, a six-minute psych-guitar wigout from Weekend that vaguely reminds me of early U2. King Tuff and Gap Dream’s “She’s On Fire” has icy electro bloops that move it beyond the already-great bratty glam stomp that Tuff always brings. Mikal Cronin’s “Better Man,” meanwhile is lovely and sensitive bah-bah-bah power-pop with a Stax soul horn section, and it somehow leads directly into Mind Spiders’ animalistic headlong attack. But despite all the relative diversity, when Crypt veterans the Gories show up with a two-minute rave-up, they fit right in. Garage Swim is as inconsistent as any compilation, and maybe it won’t endure a decade from now. But it gives curious parties a very good idea that exciting things are happening within its field, and that means it does its job. Fun driving album, too.”