“Mood & Dress,” Laughing Man

The D.C. band takes a backwoods-blues aesthetic, replete with minor sevenths, and pushes it into eerie, otherworldly territory. There are unexpected horn-laden moments and strange melodic excursions, but the record mostly revolves around stripped-down guitar-bass-drums arrangements, like a Leadbelly record teased for its most surreal possibilities.

Check Ryan Little’s review of Laughing Man’s album The Lovings (63-69) here. The band performs at the Sockets Records showcase tomorrow at 9 p.m. at the Black Cat.