Heathern Haints Album Release

The fact that the new Heathern Haints album is a 12-inch, 45-RPM record is not an accident. Spacemen 3 liked that format (Big City, for example), and their influence on the Haints doesn't stop at platter speed. But the four songs on this local band's self-titled debut--recorded at Battletapes and pressed on lovely lavender vinyl at United--manage to blast into other orbits as well. Singer, guitarist and Scene staffer Brian Miles intones toward the cosmos with a throaty, reverbed call eerily reminiscent of Dead Can Dance's Brendan Perry, while incantatory drums lay the foundation for his now-echoing, now-blasting guitar lines. Taiwan Deth and 84001 round out the bill.
Sat., Aug. 30, 8 p.m., 2008