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Melt Banana
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Last time this insane Japanese art-punk trio (plus drummer) were in town, they showcased a collection of blisteringly chaotic 10-second songs. Fittingly, Bambi's Dilemma, the band's first album in nearly four years, is as fast and frantic as anything they've ever released. After eight full-length albums and a couple dozen 7-inch and EP splits, the band's songs have gotten shorter, faster, and tighter. Agata's space noise slide-guitar-triggered electronic textures are now almost overwhelmed with sheer impassioned velocity. Live, the band's thrashing D-beat rhythms are as propulsive as gasoline. Agata flings his body about (often donning a duct-taped surgical mask), and singer Yasuko O chirps and squeaks like a speed-addled Minnie Mouse tied to the train tracks. It's noisy, chaotic, beautiful, and terrifying; intense enough to draw the hardcore, crust, or black metal crowd, yet weird and brilliantly catawampus enough to hang at the Guggenheim. With Birthday Suits and the Boggs. $10. 8:00 p.m. 701 First Ave. N., Minneapolis; 612.332.1775. —Christopher Matthew Jensen