Rating: NNN
All Aboard Future bleeps and bops along, tickling eardrums with its throbbing dissonance, which would be most appropriately heard at the launch of a gallery you won’t hear about for two more years. Borrow Dad’s Grados to get the full NYC art rock “don’t call us no-wave” spiral thumps on Adam’s Turtle and Life Of Birds. These Are Powers prefer to be called “ghost punk,” a meaningless term pointing to an unhealthy concern about pigeonholing.
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If you can disregard the arrogance of proclaiming yourself outside the parameters of musical taxonomy and if you don’t mind Anna Barie’s shrill chanting, appropriately ghoulish on Sand Tassels, you’ll probably dig this synthesized blueprint of the future. If you just want to impress your friends with Brooklyn art rock, pick up Gang Gang Dance instead.
Top track: Adam’s Turtle
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