There's a marshal beat that overtakes Peter Wolf Crier, filling the insides and edges of the band's songs with a stuttering, clanging rhythm. These are break beats that fizzle and surge beneath the kind of tuneful indie rock that has come to be expected from the Jagjaguwar label. The juxtaposition presented with Peter Wolf Crier can be, at times, frustrating, and still otherwise compelling. After a debut LP that established Peter Wolf Crier as a particularly effective practitioner of glowing folk-rock, the band set a goal to play 100 shows in half a year, with this new set of songs being the result of that marathon. The banging on those drums may well represent the ethic that was instilled in them upon the undertaking of such a task, and it's a bang that commands some attention. 

[The Space, Halloween party with Peter Wolf Crier, Birds & Batteries, Goldfinch, 7:30 p.m., $8 at brownpapertickets.com, 729 Court C, Tacoma]