Sister Sonny Lovesongs (Jetset)

Sister Sonny

Lovesongs (Jetset)

Whether it's because their take on ambient and psychedelic music is such an intellectual one, or that songs with pop structures are pushed to their limits in duration and drone, or even that vocalist Pedro Carmona-Alvarez sounds uncannily like a young David Gilmour when he hits that plaintive, breathy, midrange wail, Norwegian fivepiece Sister Sonny ties post-rock to its influence in Pink Floyd tighter than anyone else seems to allow themselves to. Lovesongs mines early-psychedelic terrain, conjuring spacey sonic landscapes through repetition and slight but distinct deviations in tone and time. Feedback and echo effects are plentiful as layered vocals play over slow, crashing drums and stacks upon stacks of guitar, keyboard, and vibe sounds. "Audience" is exemplary, "Telephone" is gorgeous, but it's all tied together -- more in a poetic than a conceptual sense. Sister Sonny are capable of some serious noise, as evinced by the aptly titled "A Girl's There, Her Boyfriend's There and She Says," but are most captivating in the realm of the slow and pretty. And there's plenty of that here. (Emo's, Wednesday, Mar 15, 11pm)