HEALTH, INDIAN JEWELRY, GOLD PANDA, SOFT METALS (Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi) LOUD—If you're in the mood to be smashed in the puss by a wave of sonic delight, then Health is for you. Mashing electronica, hard-as-fuck rock, sad sack vocals, raw experimentation, and an incredible amount of volume, Health will make you dance, jam, and wish you could do it all over again as soon as they finish. WSH

CHIEF, SHOESHINE BLUE (6 PM) (Doug Fir, 830 E Burnside) Santa Monica's Chief have been quietly churning out sparkly indie pop for years, having relocated to California from New York in 2008. The quietly portion of that statement should change with the release of their forthcoming full-length on Domino Records, Modern Rituals. Frontman Evan Koga's vocals have been quickly compared to those of the Walkmen's Hamilton Leithauser. Fair enough. But these SoCal lads have their own thing going on here. The first single "Night and Day" is a lush pop tune loaded with crystalline piano lines, jittery drums, and lush harmonies. Chief manages to make melancholy music a little more joyous—sounds like the California sun has been doing them right. ML

THE PRIDS, LOOKBOOK, CRYPT OF THE GRAVE, DJ WEDNESDAY (9 PM) (Doug Fir, 830 E Burnside) The Prids deserve this. A long-running fixture in our local music community, the band walked away (or, to be exact, was airlifted) from a devastating tour van accident a couple years back, leaving the state of their health—not to mention the band itself—in grave doubt. Yet the Prids soldiered on, hunkering down in the studio to create what is without a doubt their finest work—Chronosynclastic. Parting the dark goth cloud that lingered above, Chronosynclastic is a deftly assembled recording of shimmering keyboard pop intertwined with atmospheric arrangements, vulnerable lyrics, and even a cameo from Shreddy McBeardington himself, Doug Martsch from Built to Spill. While the Prids have been around for years, only now with Chronosynclastic does it feel like they've truly arrived. EZRA ACE CARAEFF

More goodies—Cloudy October, Iretsu, Black Breath and Indian Jewelry—after the jump.

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DARK TIME SUNSHINE, RAFAEL VIGILANTICS, LIVING PROOF, DESTRO, CLOUDY OCTOBER (Ash Street Saloon, 225 SW Ash) For local heads, as well as the curious but uninitiated, there are myriad reasons why tonight is an ideal showcase of the current Northwest hiphop scene. Chief among them is Dark Time Sunshine, which features Onry Ozzborn (AKA Cape Cowen, AKA the emcee from Seattle who has more aliases than John Doe). Living Proof is comprised of Prem and Tope, the latter of whom is gaining a lot of well-deserved buzz regarding his latest excellent solo joint, Soul Music. But whatever you do, do not sleep on Cloudy October, a Portland emcee whose wildly inventive lyricism matched with his amazing stage presence creates one of the most exhilarating live sets in town—regardless of genre. All apologies to the estate of Biggie Smalls, but this lineup proves how inspiring and fun hiphop can be when it's not limited to "Party and Bullshit." RYAN FEIGH

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Iretsu - "Humbuzzer"

IRETSU, ADAM ARCURAGI, DJ LINCOLNUP (The Woods, 6637 SE Milwaukie) Iretsu's new album was written in four improvised sessions, but Fang isn't a quartet of burly, extended compositions. Rather, it's a string of 14 brief, interconnected songs, which bear pop hooks over an experimental foundation. Electric piano and guitar drive the majority of the tracks, and Iretsu harness full-throttle rock on "Humbuzzer," with slice-and-dice guitar riffs and a relentless drumbeat. Elsewhere, "Sexy, No?" flirts with a funk strut, "Hey You" makes use of found dialogue by a woman who sounds like Jane Fonda, and the title of "Nuclear Whistles" is more or less what it sounds like—high-pitched drones whooshing before a guitar riff drives it into the following track, "Waves." Iretsu has evolved capably over the past eight years, embracing a number of guises. With Fang, they've made some of their most approachable material yet, balancing it perfectly with some of the weirder shades in their palette. NL

BLACK BREATH, NORSKA, RAW NERVES, PROFITS (Branx, 320 SE 2nd) It's ballsy naming your band after a Repulsion song, especially if you're not a grinding, gurgling, gore-obsessed death metal band. Thankfully for Seattle's Black Breath, they have enough speed and ferocity to justify their moniker. BB plays riff-tastic, crust-influenced metal with some flashes of hardcore—the band recently released their debut full-length Heavy Breathing on Southern Lord Records. Heavy's sound is similar to Black Breath's previous EP, only this time it has a giant opaque cloud looming over it; the result is much more dark and dreadful. The riffs are explosive and seemingly driven by terror. It's almost as if the band scares you into loving them. ARIS WALES

HEALTH, INDIAN JEWELRY, GOLD PANDA, SOFT METALS (Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi) Like tourmates Health, Indian Jewelry have progressed from tribal noise beginnings into more accessible—albeit still harsh and warped—territory. Though their new album, a damaged, darkwave soundtrack to the apocalypse appropriately titled Totaled, was recorded in both Houston and Los Angeles, it unfolds into a captivating whole without the excessive sprawl of the cities that gave it genesis. By confining miles of dark synth, spacey electro beats, and fuzzed-out guitar noisescapes within three to four minute borders, they've created more concise, fully realized gems of gothic psychedelia without wandering off into the jam'n'drone zone they navigated on previous albums. ETHAN JAYNE Also see My, What a Busy Week!, pg. 23.