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They say good design makes everyday items seem invisible, transparent. Whether it’s an umpire or a refrigerator, when something is doing its job, you don’t notice.

This may just be the ethos to which Nick Perry’s Brass Tax ascribes. Trafficking in indie-ock, bar-rock, desert-slicked faux jazz, blooze-daddio big riffage, and timelessly utilitarian garage-rock, the Portland quartet makes music that could as ably be listened to as absorbed into the throb of daily events. These songs carry the aspirations and emotional weight of cycling to the grocery store, walking the dog, relocating a stack of books from one spot in the house to another — y’know, real shit. Everybody does things like this.