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Saturday, Dec. 6: Animal Bodies

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As much as an album cover featuring a black-and-white photo of a nude woman chained up and wearing a black mask and leather gloves might seem like something out of This is Spinal Tap, it's actually the cover of The Killing Scene by Animal Bodies. Rather than the arena rock of Smell the Glove, Animal Bodies make industrial goth music, every track surging with cold synthesizers and drenched with menacingly hushed vocals. It's almost charming just in its devotion to throwing back to the '80s, when mechanical post-punk was really rearing its head. The music of Animal Bodies almost seems designed to soundtrack some sort of future-rave scene in a '90s cyber-thriller. Still, as with much of this kind of music, there's a certain giddiness that begins to crystallize out of the fog machines of self-seriousness that billow from Animal Bodies.

ANIMAL BODIES, w/ Dion Vox, Arc Ov Light, 10 p.m., Le Voyeur, 404 E. Fourth Ave., Olympia, no cover, 360.943.5710

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