Tahiti 80, Brookville

Normandy's Tahiti 80 have recently released their fourth album, Activity Center, but only in France and Japan. It's typically unpushy of them, what with their mellow offering of likable and loose-fitting garagey electro-pop. The English-singing band, who've been around since 1996, seem to care only about quietly crafting sounds that take joyful cues from the usual suspects of the British Invasion era yet have evolved into something even more breathlessly innocent. Tonight's opener is the very tasteful eleganza-pop specialist billing himself as Brookville, a.k.a. Andy Chase, the Ex-Ivy member whose moody new Broken Lights album was produced by his pal Pedro Resende of Tahiti 80. Chase's background is wide and varied — he has produced Juliana Hatfield and composed the score for the Farrelly Bros.' Shallow Hal, among a lot of other things, and he's full of new-pop surprises, as you'll see tonight.