Featuring former members of Rose Windows and Dræmhouse, Seattle trio TERMINATor are one of our city's most interesting rock groups. Their sound is at once methodical and ramshackle, their guitar tones redolent of 4AD goth/post-punk iconoclasts such as (early) Dead Can Dance and Dif Juz, and their use of FX'd flute is a goddamn blessing that adds a disorienting eeriness to their songs. TERMINATor—drummer/flautist Veronica Dye, synth/bassist/guitarist Lauren Rodriguez, and guitarist Albie—come at rock from oblique angles and refute the commonly held notion that bands need to be "tight" to be good. It is exactly their loose-limbed offness that makes TERMINATor's music a slow-motion epiphany. by Dave Segal