Pitchfork

Middle-of-the-road, garden variety, Garden State indie rock has been grabbing ad jingles, soundtracks, and blog love for the past few years, but the noise underground is still alive and well for those whose lives were unchanged by the Shins. Take Sightings, a Brooklyn trio who push sonic boundaries with plain old guitar, bass, and drums. Even if you don't like them, at the very least the band makes a memorable impression. "Perforated", from the forthcoming Andrew WK-produced release Through the Panama on Load, sucks you in right away with a bassline that sounds like an off-kilter "Ace of Spades", hypnotic, tribal drumming, and a speaker-shredding wall of wailing guitars. Stream-of-conscious lyrics in Thurston Moore-like murmurs follow about a perforated self, cutting along the line, trading faces, and shedding skins. It's a big, bad freakout that gets better with each listen.