Filed under: Music, Rock | Tags: Jamaica Plain, Music, Neptune, New Release, Noise, Rock, Show
February 19 is the release date of Neptune’s long-awaited album, Gong Lake, on Table of the Elements imprint Radium. From the sound of the first single, Paris Green, they’ve spent their time on many tours and recording sessions honing and fine-tuning their mechanized attack. The quick, reference-laden comparison: it’s a marriage of mid-80s Touch and Go and Dischord post-hardcore officiated by the spirit of Devo.
If anything, Neptune are to be experienced live to appreciate the intensity and craft that goes into what they do with their self-made instruments- robust and intimidating bass guitars, a drum kit made from oil drums, guitars with trussed metal fret boards, and electric triggers activated by home light switches.
They’re celebrating with a show a few days beforehand (Feb. 16th), accompanied by fellow J.P. comrades Helms. These are Powers and Animal Hospital will be rounding out the solid bill. It all goes down Lower Allston’s rock chapel, Great Scott, with festivities commencing at 9:00.
Being ambivalently out of the loop of indie rock life, it’s just refreshing to hear something so exuberant. My first impression of the band was that of a smoothed-out Velocity Girl, with brighter and more reverb-laden guitars, like listening to ‘Crazy Town’ having emerged from the fuzz of early ’90s malaise.
Sonic ‘palate cleansing’ is a pretty apt description for what the Black Kids offer, though the term’s stolen from Jim Mendiola’s thoughts on the Go! Team. Take a gander and listen. We’ll see how they fare after they release their follow up-to their Wizard of Ahhhs EP in April. It’s going to have a rework of, I Don’t Want to Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You, which is below. Get your fix here, too.
RIYL: Velocity Girl, My Favorite, Joy Division, Junior Senior
