Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

It's Alive!

It has to be intimidating when your debut album is garnering heavy media buzz several months before its release. But such was the case with Grand Archives and their much-ballyhooed self-titled freshman effort. Fortunately, the band — whose collective pedigree includes formal connections to the Shins and Band of Horses, hence the hype — managed to live up to lofty expectations. This time around, the band kept a markedly lower profile, the result of which is the artfully understated but sneakily brilliant Keep in Mind Frankenstein. Touring in support of the new album, the band swings through Club Metronome this Tuesday. Local alt-country torchbearers Lowell Thompson Duo open.