MUSIC

wailing blues-rock with an anthemic undertone and lyrics about survival and endurance. The long-form “Formless Hands” has a regal, entrancing shuffle, almost like a sharper-edged Can, and builds to a ritualistic peak that manifests the bandmates’ occultrock history in a dazzlingly fresh and urgent way. Despite their links to the past, Molasses are confidently their own thing.

—MONICA KENDRICK

Aquiles Navarro & Tcheser Holmes, Heritage of the Invisible II International Anthem intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/heritage-ofthe-invisible-ii

Trumpeter Aquiles Navarro and drummer Tcheser Holmes begin their new duo album, Heritage of the Invisible II (International Anthem), with “Initial Meditation,” a red-hot vortex of percussion and electronics whose abrasive, hypnotizing swirls sometimes sound like a helicopter flying overhead. That powerful opening statement makes clear that these musicians—best known from unrepentantly political jazz ensemble Irreversible Entanglements—can sound just as colossal as a duo as they do with that five-piece band. Navarro and Holmes first clicked when they met at the New England Conservatory in 2008, and throughout Heritage of the Invisible II you can feel how deep their bond runs; they speak

MARCH 26

Naperville Bluegrass Festival

@ Sheraton Lisle Naperville Hotel