Kevin Bronson on March 28th, 2013

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Seems like only yesterday some quirky lads from England were making a mess of Spaceland – trimming foliage from around the Silver Lake reservoir and adorning the stage with it (along with stuffed animals and other detritus), playing like possessed Pied Pipers and finishing their set when their keyboardist donned a waist drum and marched straight through the shoulder-to-shoulder crowd, down the hall and into the men’s room. That was L.A.’s introduction to British Sea Power, the persevering Brighton bunch for whom the Killers once opened. Was it really 10 years ago this fall? BSP this year celebrates a decade of making its eclectic, cinematic and electric rock by releasing its fifth album, “Machineries of Joy” (out next week on Rough Trade), the follow-up to 2011’s brilliant “Valhalla Dancehall.” As with much of their catalog, the title track taps into something transcendent, something British Sea Power has given us 10 years to consider but that we will not pretend to have figured out. (No U.S. tour dates on BSP’s 2013 calendar yet.)