Their latest album, Green Light Go, is a nonstop exercise in full-on dance-rock combustion. The Redwood Plan is not fond of giving you a moment to breathe. From the first track, "Panic On," the album just does not rest.
The style of dance-rock perpetuated by the Redwood Plan tends to defer to the sort of pulsing synths that you imagine might have scored a speedboat chase on Miami Vice. Everything is forward motion, punctuated by surprisingly lovely melodies, as on the appropriately titled "The Scenery and the Melody," which hums with the kind of chiming synth lines that you might see in the climax of a John Hughes movie.
Read Rev. Adam McKinney's full feature on The Redwood Plan in the Music and Culture section.
THE REDWOOD PLAN, w/ Steel Cranes and Full Moon Radio, 7 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 29, all ages, Le Voyeur, 404 E. Fourth Ave., Olympia, $3, 360.943.5710
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