Patrick Costello doesn’t knock politely on “Heart Like a Hurricane”; he kicks the screen door off its hinges and drags you onto the dance floor. The San Francisco multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, composer, and drummer, who also leads The KnabokovCollective, usually roams from political blues rock to bluegrass to rock-jazz-Latin-reggae instrumentals. Here he plants both boots in rockabilly, surf rock, and classic rock and roll.

The engine is a twangy, slightly echoing melodic line that sprints like it just spotted someone across the room. Underneath, a steady, relentless thump keeps the pulse racing, while crashing accents land like sudden heart palpitations. Nothing slows down. Nobody gets a breather.

And that’s the point. This is boy meets girl at full throttle, the dizzy, spellbound panic of sudden infatuation, when one person rearranges your whole brain in an afternoon. Costello captures that frantic euphoria with the swagger of the early rock ’n’ roll pioneers, yet it never smells like a museum exhibit. It sounds alive, sweaty, a little reckless.

I caught myself grinning at nothing halfway through. Chaotic joy is contagious like that.

So when love hits like weather, why would anyone bother running for shelter?

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