Supporting their new album “The Sound
The Speed The Light,” Mission of Burma bring their proto-indie punk
to the Subterranean on Friday at 2011 W. North Avenue. The show is
17+, doors are at 9:00, $15.00. Opening are D. Rider and The
Poison Arrows. For a taste of Burma, they'll also be at the Wicker Park Music Festival on Saturday.
The band is eight years into their renaissance, and the new album, if not splashy, is solid. These guys effortlessly display their chops in a calculatedly messy collision approach to instrumentation. Their style could almost be described as bare bones punk, except for the proggy vocals and time changes, and bombastic metal guitar elements. Some of their abstract lead-ins and breaks are a welcome departure, but they often seem like cool effects laid over something. The Mission incorporate experimental elements but never fully synthesize them.
They do best when they stick pretty close to old-school punk, which makes the album sound just a bit familiar. And uneven. When fully progging out, the only reminder of the punk idiom are the hard driving drums, and the songwriting seams begin to show. They dip their toes too deeply in a quasi-indie milieu on numbers like After the Rain, and Feed, sounding generic. But most of the tracks are looser edged. On One Day We Will Live There, So Fuck It, and Good Cheer, things are likably messier. The slick wherewithal present elsewhere, which can disadvantage any band striving for a punk aesthetic punk—this is supposed to sound gritty right?—falls away to unleash chaotic passion and plenty headbanging fodder.
There's every reason to expect a lot of payoff at this show, a high level musicianship and lots of swagger and energy. See you there!
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