** This show is being postponed! Tickets from the 3/19 date will be honored! More information coming soon*

Versus

with Romantic States & Corduroy

3/13 at Ottobar

There have been rumblings for years amongst ardent fans about Versus working on a sci-fi concept album. The band had essentially disappeared from the public eye since releasing 2010’s On the Ones and Threes, until the excellent Ex Nihilo EP materialized in May on a new label, Ernest Jenning Record Co. (having previously worked with Teen-beat, Caroline, and Merge), unveiling the nascent stages of this direction. Now, the apocrypha has officially been dispelled with the announcement of a new LP, Ex Voto, to be released in August, also on EJRC. A discussion with the band’s frontman Richard Baluyut reveals allusions to science fiction and spirituality, equally arcane and universal