Blues Control is the shape-shifting debut of the New York-based duo of Lea Cho and Russ Waterhouse, who also comprise the experimental outfit, Watersports. The pair glues together sounds that seem like they wouldn’t belong together but instead startle with their freshness. The gnarly and the smooth, tranquility and obstreperousness, chaos and control all hang out together. “Boiled Peanuts” finds hypnotic piano and rowdy guitar hitching a ride on catchy beats as they cruise off to Can-land. On the title cut, a scrambled-and-deep-fried drum machine bumpily chugs along as an impossibly grimy guitar lets loose, making for an exhilaratingly messy noise. “Migration” is like a big bubbling pot of ambient stew with plenty of room for psychedelicized keyboard, soothing drones and stirring harmonica interjections. Never heard steel drums and fuzzy, buzzy guitar jam out? Then check out “Frankie’s Problem.” The album’s longest cut, “No Sweat,” features a can’t-get-it-out-of-my-head piano part and supremely grubby guitar. Eventually the mini-epic drifts into a truly strange place where percussion and whistles have their say. And who taught the drum machine to play free jazz?