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Some prog rock sounds like the work of a sweaty, chain-smoking obsessive holed up in a cellar full of ammunition and Spam, trying to suss out the workings of a sinister conspiracy on cluttered bulletin boards a la the unhinged cops in Se7en or True Detective. But despite prog’s often fiendish complexity, it doesn’t always go hand-in-hand with what you might euphemistically call disordered mental processes—sometimes it’s gleaming and triumphal, like the product of a futuristic laboratory in a Marvel superhero movie. Chicago five-piece District 97, who celebrate the release of their third studio album, In Vaults (Laser’s Edge), with a show at Martyrs’ on Friday, definitely fall into the latter category.
The song streaming below, “Takeover,” is the first full track released from In Vaults. It premiered yesterday at Prog Magazine, appropriately enough. On Friday at Martyrs’, Cheer-Accident headline; opening the show are Lovely Little Girls, who have a new album of their own in the can.
