Yet another band to generate a big buzz with little actual product, the Portland powerhouse DANAVA has so far made one comp appearance and released a couple demo tracks, but the tunes sound like the work of musicians with a future longer than 15 minutes. Danava’s fresh approach to aggro space rock is flexible enough that it ought to be sustainable more or less indefinitely–they sometimes dress up their long-journeying songs in shameless glam glitter and sometimes tweak them with elegant impishness a la Syd Barrett (RIP), and they always sound like they could’ve survived an intergalactic space battle with Damon Edge with most of their shields intact. They’ve recently signed to Kemado and are finishing up a full-length due in the fall; here they’ll be selling a one-sided tour-only 12-inch of tracks from the album that has engraving on the empty face. –Monica Kendrick
