Led by extraordinarily eccentric polymath Adam 'Doseone' Drucker, mighty Bay Area hip-pop experimentalists Subtle roll into town with their seven-piece genre-bending circus and a new (third) album 'ExitingARM' (Lex) to promote. Expect a dizzying, densely layered mix of hip hop, fractured psych pop, electronica, scribbly, illbient soundscaping and puzzlingly opaque lyrics, which somehow never loses tocuh with pop's melodic drive.

How hard is it to write about yourself. it really does feel like a job application. My name is Grace, I have been single for a while and enjoyed...