Few among the recent crop of costumed bands have developed visual identities as emblematic of their music as electro-bounce duo Yip Yip, whose elegantly bizarre checkerboard jumpsuits merge basement space spectacle with the bold simplicity of 1980s fun. That’s not to say that the group—which regularly shares stages with the likes of Lightning Bolt, the Locust, Adult, Xiu Xiu and Mixel Pixel—is in any way nostalgic. A hint of menace pervades the group’s binary-blip instrumentals, and the arty play of vintage electronics and deliberately devolved imagery is redolent of today’s art-pop underground. Check them out next Thursday (Oct. 4) at Soundlab at 9pm.
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