The Appleseed Cast

Three what-is-this-mysterious-white-light-streaming-into-my-house reasons to head on over to the Bottom Lounge tonight…

1. It feels like Kansas post-rock quintet The Appleseed Cast has been around forever. And the band has seven full-length albums to prove it. Along the way they’ve grown from that first generation Emo band that sounded an awful lot like Sunny Day Real Estate at times to a experimental rock behemoth that veers more into Mogwai territory on its latest album Sagarmatha with some songs, like album opener “As the Little Things Go,” showing off long instrumentals with mounting tension, distortion and found elements that evolve into a sea of wailing vocals.

2. Fellow Lawrence, Kansas, math rockers Muscle Worship came along for the ride. The hard rock quintet opts for loud in all its various capacities: vocally, rhythmically, melodically. Muscle Worship is loud. The band enjoys following its own meandering path with jacked up time signatures that make songs feel a step out of place, but somehow it works. Perhaps it is the constant driving drum beats or its lead singers drowned out wails, but it works.

3. So are you curious yet? Check out the Appleseed Cast performing “On Reflection,” from the album Low Level Owl: Volume I, at the Bottom Lounge in 2010.

9:00 p.m. Thursday, 4/21. Bottom Lounge. $16. 17+