Solo debuts aren't supposed to be this good. Jay Reatard has been kicking around Memphis since a teen, starting in the 1990s with the dirty-word punk of The Reatards, and lately in the thrashy synth-centered Lost Sounds. The brilliant Blood Visions falls somewhere in between - rambunctious and roaring, jerking nervously all the way. Tons of highlights here - tons of them - hitting on just about every style that's had the word "punk" thrown at it as an epithet. It adds up sounding closest to the not-quite-new-wave rock that bounced between ambitious indies and majors around 1980; it resembles the twisted naiveté of the era, before bands realized that building a hook around "I will kill you" was going to keep them off the airwaves.