NORTHSIDE FESTIVAL SONG OF THE DAY: “IN KIND” BY BRAIDS

Montreal experimental art-rock trio BRAIDS will be playing the Northside Festival on June 15, previewing songs from their upcoming sophomore full-length, Flourish // Perish (Arbutus, August 20), the follow-up to 2011’s Native Speaker. The band — which now consists of Raphaelle Standell-Preston on guitar, keyboards, and lead vocals, Austin Tufts on drums, and Taylor Smith on bass (fourth founding member Katie Lee left the group last year) — spent a year writing and recording the album in a Montreal studio, coming up with ten tracks, including “Victoria,” “Hossak,” “Girl,” “Ebben,” “Amends,”and “Juniper.” They’ll be at Cameo Gallery on Saturday night on a bill with Yellow Ostrich, Bell Mare, and Widowspeak.