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The Prids perform "Shadow and Shadow"

David Frederickson and Mistina Keith—neither having graduated high school—met young, started a band, fell in love and got married, and then got divorced. That didn’t stop them from continuing to make music together, however. That may sound either like the worst kind of self-punishment or a promising modus operandi for the modern power duo (ask Meg and Jack White, respectively), but the fact that the Prids’ relationship remains ambiguous—they still live and work together in a remote home known as “the Compound”—makes a perfect backdrop for the band’s music. Poignant, brooding, and buzzily sweet, their last release, …Until the World is Beautiful (Five03) has an 1980s-infused, Breakfast Club danceability—if it were better influenced by Bauhaus and reborn in the future, where everything sounds better. There’s an undeniable chemistry at work here, and not just between Frederickson and Keith, who handle guitar and bass as well as vocals, but with keyboardist Eric Hold and drummer Joey Mass as well. Recommended for fans of Interpol, Joy Division, New Order and Yo La Tengo, this music can be torpidly gloomy but refreshing anyways, kind of like a much needed summertime storm. Originally from Lincoln, Nebraska, this group now calls Portland, Oregon home, and since they’re kicking off this tour on the East Coast, the Prids will actually swing through Buffalo twice within a little over a month: This solo tour has them playing with opening act Neyko, and when they come back around in late September to the Town Ballroom, they’ll be with headliners Built to Spill.

Monday, August 28 at 9pm. Mohawk Place 47 E. Mohawk St (855-3931) www.mohawkplace.com.