Crazy Rhythms is one of those albums during whose course you hear the most exciting sound in music: things changing. The New Jersey quartet's debut emerged in 1980, and was treated as a sacred text by a generation of American alternative musicians. If their contemporaries up the east coast in Boston, Mission of Burma, were the building block for American bands interested in exploring noise, then the Feelies were the model for their geekier brethren - REM and Yo La Tengo were evidently among those listening closely - and their spidery, spindly guitars, propelled by restless, often unconventional percussion have been imitated to the point of exhaustion. It's not entirely original - the Modern Lovers and Talking Heads are evident forebears - but it sounds entirely timeless, and the product of a group united in a worldview. Crucially, too, in the likes of Original Love you can hear that the Feelies were making pop music, if a little off at the edges. So fresh is it, that were it a new album it would be the year's best debut.