I wonder what pop music historians (read: nerds) would consider to be the first bedroom pop album. A case could be made for Paul McCartney's solo debut, McCartney. Recorded at his home in the wake of the Beatles' breakup, it touts many of what would become the defining characteristics of bedroom pop albums: a homespun mixture of personal insights and idiosyncratic flights of fancy made possible by the one-man band nature of the recording. No one there to raise their eyebrows, it seems, naturally leads to diary entries and animal sounds.

About a decade ago, Cody ChesnuTT expanded the language of bedroom pop albums with his Headphone Masterpiece, a 36-track album that showed the breadth of one man's peccadilloes in an environment where he was fully able to explore every fleeting notion. Lo-fi R&B, folk creepers, a capella chants, experimental asides - nothing was off the table, and this freedom managed to telegraph the mixing and matching of genres that would eventually leave the venue of bedroom recordings and become the norm in independent music.

But, to bring it back to 2013, there's a certain nobility in upholding the traditions of bedroom pop, which is something Plant Parenthood does quite well. Sam Petschulat formed Plant Parenthood as a solo recording project, as you do.

Read Rev. Adam McKinney's full feature on Plant Parenthood in Northwest Military's Music & Culture section.

PLANT PARENTHOOD, w/ Generifus, 10 p.m., Tuesday, June 4, Le Voyeur, 404 E. Fourth Ave., Olympia, no cover, 360.943.5710