Jag Star at the Square Room, March 19

Static Bliss is their most polished effort to date, and that's saying something. The disc--produced by singer Sara Lewis, her husband and guitarist J Lewis, and Travis Wyrick--sacrifices the aggressiveness of 2006's The Best Impression of Sanity in favor of mid-tempo anthems with booming, Kelly Clarkson-style choruses. It's like nothing else that any local bands have ever done. In fact, it's hard to think of Jag Star as a local band. As Static Bliss indicates, their ambitions have always been bigger than this town.