This is the kind of live-sounding album that you’re impressed has been captured so well in a studio, and which makes you want to rush out to see them in a club, even if it’s not entirely “your kind of thing.”

Rest assured that the band isn’t really a thing. It’s an impatient trio whose scant numbers belie their massive sound. Formed by drummer Thomas Pridgen, late of The Mars Volta, The Memorials take a rangy jazz/prog view of speedy psychedelic rock. It’s an appealing, enveloping sound, as if Living Colour had invaded a production of the musical Hair. With most songs in the four-minute range and one running longer than eight, this is a band that experiements freely, but does not deserve the dreaded word “jam”—this are thought-through funk, punk, soul and rock concepts layered elaborately upon each other to the point where the idea of a mere threesome creating this universe disappears and a cloud of sound permeates the space. Subjects range from politics (“We Go to War”) to partying (“Let’s Party”), with some existential moments in there as well (“Why Me?”, “Real”).

Curiosity about the Memorials live can be sated in Connecticut May 20, when they play the Heirloom Arts Theatre in Danbury as part of a 30-city tour.