Free Blood (ex-!!!) play Chop Suey tonight. In this week's paper, Eric Grandy talked to the band about their musical past and present:

After four years of doing Free Blood on the side, Pugh's departure from !!! has allowed the band to become a full-time endeavor. Asked if it's nice to only have one band to work on now, Pugh sighs with relief: "Ohhhhh yeah."

Free Blood's debut collection, The Singles—out on DFA/Rong Music, whose proprietor Ben Cook is a recent transplant to Seattle—gathers six original songs and five remixes (some previously released) to make for either a generous EP or a somewhat shifty full-length. Despite their streamlined core, Free Blood's sound reveals an expansive approach to the studio, where they pile on layers of vocals and instruments, often with help from their friends. On any given track, there are buzzing synths, live and programmed percussion, strutting bass, liquid guitars, strings, and plenty of reverberating room underpinning the dueling vocals.

Read more about the new album, and Pugh's thoughts on !!! here.

Also tonight! AFCGT and PWRFL Power at Neumos:

AFCGT, PWRFL Power, Linda and Ron's Dad
(Neumos), On their self-titled 180-gram white-vinyl LP for Uzu Audio, Seattle supergroup AFCGT (A Frames + Climax Golden Twins) create a species of antisocial rock that aspires to freedom through a coiled fury. The 10 songs here radiate a rancorous cacophony—thanks largely to at least three scabrous, wiry guitars—that often bleeds into the red, on more than one level. The quintet harbor a no-wave-like disregard for clean production values and conventionally "pretty" melody and the Fall and Flipper's roughshod repetitiveness figures heavily. I don't hear any hit singles. Linda and Ron's Dad favor rugged and playful funk productions tailor-made for adventurous MCs to rap over. PWRFL Power writes whimsical outsider pop songs that inspire mad love and vicious hate in equal measure. DAVE SEGAL

The rest of our listings are here!