Enough background boingy boinginess to remind you just whose album you’re listening to. Mutations is as well-crafted as your favorite beverage of choice sitting at that fire pit.

John Lurie released this record under the alter ego Marvin Pontiac. Lurie (front man for the Lounge Lizards, star of Jim Jarmusch movies, host of TV’s “Fishing with John”) teams up with Mark Ribot, Tony Scherr, John Medeski, Billy Martin, Angélique Kidjo, among others.