If you're prepared for a rewarding slog, go for the longer set: Appreciating the Homosexuals for the process band they were means confronting their fondness for the unfinished or finished-and-then-de-finished. Astral Glamour is loaded with promising jams, fragments, perky melodies detourned by freakishly mannered singing, appearances by a Uruguayan painter, progressive tilts at sideways riffs, and seven unfinished instrumentals recently overdubbed with McQuillan's attempts to remember the words. Occasionally, the band blows a hole through the middle of the target, just to prove they can: the Dada disco incinerator "Soft South Africans," the 94-second art-punk slalom "Vociferous Slam," a dance song called "You're Not Moving the Way You're Supposed To" with an enormous chorus, maybe some others. But much more often they deliberately mis-aim, or move the target, or frame the target as an art installation and question its ontology. Even their first single, "Hearts in Exile," was proleptically altered: deepened by a savage dub mix that washes away all but a few shreds of guitar and makes McQuillan's squealing harmonica and condensed, imagistic lyrics seem like they're being reeled in from the void. (A more straightforward, previously unheard mix is on both new releases as well.) Most of these songs are deliberately broken; possibility spills out of their fractures.

The Homosexuals [in Exile], featuring original Homosexuals frontman Bruno Aleph Wizard, play the Knitting Factory July 23 and Tommy's Tavern in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, July 24.