John Congleton’s brooding, gut-punching production has made him an in-demand studio guru for artists like Mouse Mouse, The Thermals and The Mountain Goats, but he saves his darkest, most claustrophobic ideas for his own avant-indie ensemble, The Paper Chase. The Dallas band’s latest, Someday This Could All Be Yours, Vol. 1, is their most high-concept yet, an album themed around things that can kill youfrom fire to lightning, blizzards, tornados, floods and epidemics, the clatter on each song loosely mirrors that of a different natural disaster. The Paper Chase shares this bill with Call Me Lightning and Red Knife Lottery, the Milwaukee band whose upcoming album, Soiled Soul and Rapture, was produced by Congleton.
The Paper Chase w/ Call me Lightning and Red Knife Lottery
Tonight @ The Cactus Club, 10 p.m.
