Bridges and Powerlines at the Mercury Lounge

The present members of Bridges and Powerlines, vocalist/keyboardist Andrew Wood of Connecticut, guitarist David Boyd of Kentucky, bassist Keith Sigel of North Carolina, and drummer Mason Ingram of Texas, met in Brooklyn. The indie-pop band debuted with a self-titled EP in 2006, released two subsequent albums and a new EP, Better, becomes available on May 21st.

At Mercury Lounge tonight, Bridges and Powerlines showcased some of its older songs as well as its newer songs, the latter of which are all named after Brooklyn neighborhoods. These were all short harmony-laden songs, seemingly inspired in part by 1990s college-radio power pop tunes. The drummer propelled the rest of the band into a driving body-bouncing beat that quickly compelled the audience out of the seating area along the perimeter of the room. The accent of the music was more pop than rock, however, so each song was packaged slickly as a tightly compressed unit, with little room for instrumentation to more than accompany a melody. Bridges and Powerlines will perform at a record release concert at Pianos on May 18^th.