Field Recordings bring their noise pop to New London

Used to be, "field recordings" referred to scratchy reel-to-reel treasures: tapes of Mance Lipscomb wailing rural blues or Mississippi chain gangs singing work hollers, captured by folk archivists like John Lomax and revealing unknown musical worlds.

Or, there's always the Danbury noise pop band called Field Recordings, who decidedly are not blind, did not sell their souls at a Dixie crossroads, or refer to one another as "Blind" Daniel Gallo, "Howlin'" Jared Thompson or "Lightnin'" Noel Thomas.

They do write some catchy-as-hell tunes as per their "Elastic Nostalgia" EP project - and, yes, they've mastered the requisite guitar feedback to indicate proper fascination with the texture of noise.

See them twice in New London on Friday. They'll do an in-store set at the Telegraph at 6 p.m. and then are part of a bill with the Suicide Dolls and Instant Family in the Oasis Pub show at 9:30 p.m.

- RICK KOSTER

The Field Recordings,

6 p.m. Friday, The Telegraph Music and Books, 10 Golden St., New London; free; (860) 701-0506; also, 9 p.m. Friday, Oasis Pub, 16 Bank St., New London; $5; (860) 447-3929.