***Mascot, the debut from Ukranian guitar & drum machine noise makers, BICHKRAFT, holds these times for what they are: fleeting diversions from the bleak realities of modern life and an increasingly uncertain political landscape. As fluent in Jesus & Mary Chain’s Psychocandy as they are with Sonic Youth and Big Black, Bichkraft is heavy, paranoid music with frenetic jams of dueling & weaving guitars, digitized howls, and amped up brutality & chaos, and even some undeniably pretty moments of love and decay.