So, local obscuro-punks Talbot Tagora have their debut album, Lessons in the Woods or a City, coming out July 21st via local label Hardly Art, and they're celebrating with a record release show at the Vera Project on July 30th.

Here's what I had to say about the band just over a year ago, back when they were mere babes:

The young band's sound is just as inspired, muddled, and gestational as their politics. Ando and Greshowak's vocals and guitars layer into echoes and drones as often as they do catchy melodies, and Valley's rhythms turn sharply from tense grooves to jerking arrhythmia. Like Smell standard-bearers No Age, Talbot Tagora often submerge insanely poppy punk songs underneath a protective layer of noise. At their best, as on the song "You Look Like a Human," their pogoing energy just breaks the surface, drums and guitars interlocking in tight formation, chanted vocals emerging more or less intelligibly out of drone and peripherally swirling delay.

When everything comes together, when their nervously ticking energy meets their amorphous, well-intentioned aims head on, it's pretty inspiring. Even when it doesn't quite spark, it's still full of exciting potential.

The trio has grown impressively since that early check-in; you can expect to hear Lessons on finer iPods and stereo systems all over the place this summer. To whet your appetite, here's a song from the album, the delirious, disorienting nod "Ichthus Hop":

Talbot Tagora - "Ichthus Hop"