Tonight's show celebrates the release of Lithics' debut full-length, Borrowed Floors, a calculated examination of minimalistic but cacophonous noise. With casual expertise the Portland punk four-piece throws seemingly disparate sounds together like they're unblushingly mixing stripes and polka dots. The result is arresting—tense asymmetrical guitar riffs contrast sharply against Aubrey Hornor's detached vocals. I'd gladly rattle off artists with a similar sound if only I could think of any. Listening to Borrowed Floors feels like absorbing a particularly perplexing piece of abstract art—although it might initially appear simple, the album's geometric orchestral layers are arranged with deft grace and painstaking precision, like an indestructible Jenga tower. CIARA DOLAN