Sat 6/28 @ 10PM
Akron quartet Relaxer has impeccable indie credentials. Its members have played with respected underground bands like The Party of Helicopters, Houseguest, and White Pines. A couple of them played in Black Keys’ drummer Patrick Carney’s side project Drummer.
Only a few years old, to date their catalog includes only an EP and a split single (Adding to their local indie cred, it was with Cloud Nothings). But they spent most of last year working on their first full-length album, Lasers, with producer/engineer Chris Koltay, who’s worked with My Morning Jacket and Deerhunter. With just five songs on the album, it seems like it will accurate reflect the band’s spawling, prog-rock leanings.
They’ll be introducing the LP at a release show at Akron’s Musica. Cleveland quartet NIGHTS will bring their spacious shoegazer music as opening act.
Admission is $5.