Jared Seabrook, the bands drummer, bashed a manhole-cover-size ride cymbal and viciously pummeled his snare; Tom Blancarte clawed at his upright bass with something like frenzied desperation. In the foreground Brandon Seabrook, Jareds brother, was a man apparently hellbent on earning the title of Worlds Least Rustic Banjo Player.
It was all hyper-declarative and a little juvenile, but not without reason. The music of Seabrook Power Plant the name is a riff on a nuclear station in Seabrook, N.H. descends both from the extreme wing of avant-garde jazz and the twitchier strains of hardcore punk. Some songs on the bands self-titled debut, just out on Loyal Label, also reveal a fruitful affinity with the lumbering churn of stoner metal.
One such tune, “I Dont Feel So Good," was a highlight of Tuesdays set. Brandon Seabrook, playing electric guitar, paired off at first with Mr. Blancarte to play a sludgy riff. This went on for a while, drums crashing on the downbeat, before abruptly stopping for a guitar solo. Mr. Seabrook set it high on his fret board, in scurrying-centipede mode.
