Big Jugs Release New Record

IN A TRANCE: School may be out for summer, but that’s certainly not stopping the booking powers behind Isla Vista’s Biko Co-Op Garage (6612 Sueno Rd.). In fact, this Friday, July 2, the space plays host to three promising young experimentalists: Chrome Wings, Italic Indian, and Moon Pearl. Irvine lo-fiers Moon Pearl open the show and possess an intriguing mix of cacophonous rock ’n’ roll, distorted chants, and chimey pop that calls to mind a darker, more oddball version of The Go! Team. As the second in charge, Westminster electro-rockers Italic Indian are riding the current No Wave movement to new heights. They pen tunes that are computer based, sonically ambiguous, and dizzyingly experimental, and the result sounds like a cross between Animal Collective and a tripped-out soundtrack to a modern art installation.

Rounding out the night are Portland-dwellers Chrome Wings, who are hands-down dishing up the most palatable jams of the lineup. Mixing spacey samples with all kinds of synth and drum machine loops, the duo (made up of multi-instrumentalists Jon Jurow and Shane McDonell) fall somewhere between a baroque, vocally light Grizzly Bear and Here We Go Magic.

No matter what comparisons you draw, though, all three are bound to put on a dazzling sonic display—not to mention to employ more tripped-out gear than we listeners can even begin to wrap our heads around.