Last week I went to see Case Oats, the Chicago indie folk-rock band where singer-songwriter Casey Gomez Walker joins forces with drummer Spencer Tweedy, who you've seen behind the kit with Waxahatchee, his dad Jeff, etc. I'd enjoyed last year's debut album Last Missouri Exit , but Gomez Walker's songs really came alive for me onstage. A big reason for that was guitarist Max Subar, who was absolutely cooking up there. So it was pleasing to learn that Subar recently signed to Merge Records, the same label that works with Case Oats, to release his debut solo album Anything Could Be . The album is coming in July, and its opener, the title track, is out today. Although I was impressed by Subar's six-string acumen last week, his own music is weary, understated singer-songwriter fare that reminds me a lot of latter-day Wilco and solo Jeff Tweedy, to further tangle up this knot of Chicago connections. "Walking through our memories," he sings near the end, amidst gorgeous guitar cycles.…