In Brief

*** The Rembrandts, “LP,” East-West. Phil Solem and Danny Wilde didn’t choose the name of their third album for nothing. From the unspeakably perky theme to the TV series “Friends”--a perfect paean to the Monkees--to a fistful of shimmering songs that might have been outtakes from “Rubber Soul,” the duo has brazenly borrowed from the best of the analog era, with happy results.

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