Parts & Labor @ Captain’s Rest, 16 Feb

There’s doing it yourself and there’s doing it before the head settles on a bystander’s Guinness; tonight Brooklyn quartet Parts & Labor assemble their effects and have the amps cranked in 10 minutes. It would be fitting for a band raised on a steady diet of Minutemen and Hüsker Dü to do all things at speed, but the frenzy of earlier P&L gigs seems to have simmered in accordance with the steady rhythm of their latest drummer. Channelling the mania of their punk roots into something new by incorporating a wealth of field samples into their songs, the Captain’s Rest is left basking in the organic vibrancy of last year’s dazzling Receivers, from which Solemn Show World translates well as the euphoric centrepiece. Their experimental edge is made all the more palatable by melodies awash with Celtic-inflected charm. Of course, there’s not a set of live bagpipes in sight, but they wouldn’t sound out of place. [Dave Kerr]