To call Ceramic Animal mere psych-rock is to unfairly relegate them to the same paisley parking lot spinners who never figured out that Their Satanic Majesties Request was just the Stones mocking them and their multicolored millennial progeny. Ceramic Animal specializes in less whimsical and more muscular guitar rock than one expects from an ensemble prone to buy and wear stage outfits all purchased together at the same place and time, a sartorial affectation that may be due to three of them being brothers who got their start playing generic covers in various Pennsylvania bar bands.

Currently ranging in age from 25 to 32, their 2016 debut album, The Cart, has well over a million Spotify streams, with listeners signing in from over 60 countries (they seem particularly popular in Mexico City, thanks to their high profile on a playlist geared for Spanish-speaking listeners). An almost universally well-reviewed SXSW set earlier this year likely has a lot to do with successfully booking the headline tour that brings them to the House of Blues Voodoo Room on September 9, where tracks from their sole album will be augmented by new material like their current single, “So Familiar,” said to be from an upcoming sophomore full-length. The performance takes place in the Voodoo Room.