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Perennial is an art project: Mod pop, post-hardcore, 60s soul, ambient electronic music, midcentury design, abstract expressionism, French New Wave cinema; its all collage material for Perennial.

The band electric organist Chelsey Hahn, guitarist Chad Jewett and drummer Ceej Dioguardi is equal parts manic basement show bombast and studio-as-instrument headphone listening. To see the New England three-piece in person is to experience a 20-minute burst of kinetic energy: dynamic, reckless, electrifying. To put on one of Perennials records is to spend almost the same amount of time with impeccably layered studio-as-instrument punk modernism.

Art History, the bands newest full-length album (out June 7 via Ernest Jenning Record Co.), finds Perennial further experimenting with their angular cut-and-glue aesthetic. An adventurous 20 minutes of impressionist punk energy, British Invasion guitar pop chic, and Mod-inflected rhythm and noise rave-ups, Art History is both Perennials most giddily accessible and most artistically daring record to date