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WEDNESDAY
For their fourth proper full-length, We Like It Wild, Bloomington’s Impossible Shapes ventured into the Indiana State Forest and emerged with campfire-smoked clothes, pine needles in their hair, and 14 jangly psych-folk-pop tunes perfectly built for stoners from ’60s-era London to modern-day Santa Cruz. Frontman Chris Barth’s gentle tenor is set to the sometimes ethereal, sometimes jammy revolving guitar and rhythm section of multi-instrumentalists Aaron Deer, Jason Groth, and Mark Rice. Given the band’s many influences, comparisons abound to everyone from Derek and the Dominos to the entire Elephant 6 collective. But the band’s own press paints a more vivid picture, imagining the goofballs “on Vashti Bunyan’s cart-ride across England’s countryside, hoofing it during the day, setting up camp at night, chasing dogs and smoking tea into the dreamscape.” Bring your special Earl Grey when the Impossible Shapes play with Head of Femur and Like Language at 9 p.m. at the Warehouse Next Door, 1017 7th St. NW. $7. (202) 783-3933. (Anne Marson)