Seattle’s BOAT have always been purveyors of the kind of fuzzed out, sing-along indie pop that hearkens back to the days of wearing out VHS dubs of last Sunday’s 120 Minutes and poring over dog-eared copies of Magnet/Raygun/Spin/local zine in your parents’ basement. BOAT’s new record, Dress Like Your Idols, finds the band quite literally wearing their influences on their sleeves; the cover features the band sloppily repainting their name into their favorite album covers. While BOAT has always had a knack for writing lab-tested, scientifically perfect three-minute pop songs, Idols shows BOAT experimenting more with the recording studio (finding themselves in that cherished warm and fuzzy mid-fi territory) and mastering the sort of vitriolic, goosebump-inducing anthems (seriously, “Forever In Armitron” is a glowing, Seattle-centric “Harnessed In Slums”) that make you want to fire that old fanzine back up again. With Pickwick, Concours d’Elegance. GREGORY FRANKLIN

Fri., March 25, 9:30 p.m., 2011