Vehicles of Travel

The third full-length album from The Curtains (members of Deerhoof, Natural Dreamers, and Open City) moves away from the experimental fragments and sketches of 2003’s Flybys, toward a more realized sound--half the songs even have vocals--that evokes a merry-go-mood of musical soundscapes: John Carpenter’s thrillers, Nino Rota’s circus stomps, and Ennio Morricone’s forays into rock’n’roll.