Tomorrows Tulips are out there on the edge of the Burger Records roster, where known space dissolves and communication with home base starts dissolving into static. (That’s where the Cosmonauts hang out, too, by the way.) Their sound is a distant sound, matching a skeletal K Records rhythm section to the annihilated pop of the early Jesus and Mary Chain—you know, when they didn’t so much play songs as simply exude them. The Tulips’ album-teasing new video (for the upcoming When full-length) attaches the uptempo Teenage Fanclub-style rocker “Baby” to the cryogenically slow-mo zone-out “Glued to You,” which is as romantic as it is tranquilizing. Now and forever, this is the kind of band that will have a particularly potent effect on its listeners—please, heed all warning labels.
Thu., Sept. 18, 8 p.m., 2014
