Mass Shivers, Ecstatic Eyes Glow Glossy (Sickroom, 2007)Listen: “Womanizing Metal Studs”

Chicago’s Mass Shivers don’t overdo the weirdness on their debut full-length; in fact, though their songs whine with whale call guitar tones and often get lost in cul de sacs of percussion, it’s the trio’s love of repetitive vocal phrasing that keeps everything on course, righting the ship whenever their post-post-post-everything tendencies grow a little too strong. If you ever fell in love with Chicago’s post-rock scene of the 1990s, but felt like maybe those groups were, er, a little too intellectual, then such Shivers tracks as “Downwind of Amour” and “Womanizing Metal Studs” — both of them building to a burst, but each sounding like a deconstructed 70s mustache rock at the very same time — are probably going to make you fall in some kind of love. And then, once you’re enamored, Mass Shivers will give you the heady chatter of “Mossy Nethers” (featuring even more strong vocal turns), or all three parts of “Quinine Peninsula,” which might as well be an “I’m Your Captain” for the fluorescent T-shirt set. Maybe Mark Farner will show up when these dudes play the revitalized Scrummage University tonight. — Johnny Loftus

Tags: Mass Shivers, Ecstatic Eyes Glow Glossy, Sickroom, post-rock, Grand Funk Railroad