With a sprawling discography that spans psych-folk, country-funk, garage-prog, and other surprising permutations, Daniel Romano is the sort of artist that dares you to keep up with him. And on 2024’s Too Hot to Sleep, Romano and his backing band The Outfit unleashed an all-killer/no-filler power-pop ripper whose breakneck pace mirrors their furious rate of productivity. While Live in Oslo is ostensibly a document of that album’s fall 2024 European tour, it also serves as Romano’s answer to The Who’s Live at Leeds, upgrading selections from across his back catalog to The Outfit’s current blitzkrieging standards and runaway-train momentum. After Romano’s co-vocalist/wife Carson McHone eases us in with a grungy yet graceful reading of the 2016 Dylanesque hymn “(Gone Is) All But a Quarry of Stone,” The Outfit doesn’t look back, whipping through a breathless 15-song set with nary a between-song break. But rather than obscure Romano’s sense of craft, the raucous renditions of set-list standards like “Sucking the Old World Dry” and “Nocturne Child” show how their sidewinding melodies and beaming harmonies can withstand the adrenalized attack. And while Romano is The Outfit’s indisputable ringleader, Live in Oslo is also a testament to their egalitarian family-band vibe: On the previously unreleased “Firebreather,” bassist Tommy Major takes the lead on a garage-punk rager that kicks out the jams so thoroughly, the band can’t help but bust into the immortal riff from the MC5 classic.