This Olympia concern fronted by one Christopher Francis is at once a soul-fueled, operatic trio of riff-rockers, and absurd exhibitionists who drop rhymes and pseudo covers on stage that may or may not be planned. They’re spastic. They’re irreverent to the point that they’re dead serious. They sometimes keep time on a dustpan, an “instrument” that gets a cameo on their self-titled cassette. When Francis stares into the nothing—like I saw him do at Olympia’s Northern, in March—the way the rest of us stare into the bathroom mirror, you wonder what’s on his mind, until he says it: “Don’t go chasing waterfalls! Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that we’re used to!” With Shenandoah, Kaylee Cole. CHRIS KORNELIS

Sat., May 1, 10:30 p.m., 2010