Future of the Left

Tue., July 14, 9 p.m., $10, with Sunshine Recorder, Johnny Brenda's, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 215-739-9684, johnnybrendas.com.

by Atom Goren

rock/pop

Future of the Left sound like a band that I want to see play in person. Sure, I imagine that, as is often the case, what I hear will resemble their records — but louder. And they might lack the ability to produce the overdubbed background vocals and lead vocals simultaneously because they're not Tibetan throat singers (at press time). However, if their new full-length, Travels with Myself and Another — easily one of the year's best — which drips misanthropic-but-cleverly-funny lyrics over a sludgy-but-hook-driven rock, hints at the caliber of in-between-song banter, I expect the songs, and the time in between, to rule.