Portland, Oregon's Old Time Relijun sounds like nothing I've ever heard before. They sound like what would happen if indie rock got into a fight with Japanese noise rock band The Boredoms. The beginning of every song sounds like it is based in traditional rock music, but then suddenly a discordant saxophone will appear, or a discordant trumpet. In a lot of ways, it sounds like the rock equivalent of experimental jazz.

Their album, Catharsis in Crisis, begins with the Indian-influenced sitar song "Indestructable Life!," before quickly dissolving into a trumpet and saxophone based cacaphony of drums and sound. It is all very energetic and fast-paced, which makes it a very interesting listen. Old Time Relijun's sound perhaps comes together the most clearly towards the end of their album in the song "A Wild Harvest," which manages to combine both jazz instruments, drums, and traditional instruments into a mad frenzy of music. 

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