It’s fun because both recordings come from woman-fronted bands that sound like they’re at an apogee of execution and creativity (even as you hope they aren’t). Most interestingly, both play with the notion of that “Chicago sound” by discarding it. Once upon, Chicago bands were identifiable by a particular sound, best described (aside from “that Chicago sound”) as normal, but not. It started in the ‘80s, when many of us remember hearing Big Black and thinking, “Chicago band” even before knowing that it was. Naked Raygun twisted up punk, Out of Order burnished hardcore with an eerie skirl that the late, great Manipulation turned into a jackhammer, and on it went. Band after band from here had a clear, regional sonic identifier. “Spiderweb,” the first released song from Ratboys in 2009 also had that Chicago sound, like really smart art kids doing an alt-country cut for a horror movie soundtrack.