Clock-Out Lounge Presents: Spiral XP Mt Fog Jo Passed   Friday, May 9th 8:30 doors 21+  $15 adv/$18 dos  https://spiralxp.bandcamp.com/track/spiral-xp-awake-spring-version https://mtfog.bandcamp.com/ https://jopassed.bandcamp.com/track/weekend The nicest thing anyone has ever – ever – said to Jo Hirabayashi, frontman of Jo Passed, is that his band’s debut album sounds like “fucked-up Beatles”. Titled Their Prime, the LP does sound like fucked-up Beatles. It sounds like, somewhere across an ‘80s universe, Lennon and McCartney discovered Can and Neu!, and maybe a little Sonic Youth and XTC along the way. Opening with “Left,” it demonstrates that timeless knack for dreamy melodies – chord progressions that sound like they were created in a land far far away. Lyrically, however, it’s imbued with a philosophical longing for answers to questions that have resurfaced for the first time since the explosion of counterculture in the late 1960s and early 1970s.