"Flowers on the Wall," the opening track on Tomorrows Tulips excellent Experimental Jelly album, possesses everything you could ever want on a sun-drenched day. Minimal, bordering on the same kind of naiveté that made Beat Happening so arresting, Tomorrows Tulips are the quintessential Southern California band. At its core, the duo of Alex Knost and Ford Arcbold - who may be better known in a pop-cultural sense as top tier professional surfers - are channeling a calming sense of cool that would put even the most righteous of Spicoli's to shame - slightly happy, slightly bummed and slightly out of tune.

Despite the lack of continuous sunshine, or surfable beaches, Olympia and Tomorrows Tulips are a perfect match. DIY to the core, the band records many of its songs on portable four tracks in their Costa Mesa, Calif. home, even utilizing their backyard for video shoots. They make the kind of handmade records that dominated a very fertile period of the 1990s without coming off as a retro act.

Tomorrows Tulips are equally arresting live. Having had the pleasure of seeing the band perform up the west coast as tour mates, I can say that they bring a level of unpredictability and controlled experimentation that makes each show a must-experience event; the type of band on almost any night can steel the show from nearly anyone else on the bill. It is rare when such a bare-bones band has such an instant magnetism live: Beat Happening had it, from what I can gather the Velvet Underground had it, and without question Tomorrows Tulips possess that particularly intangible element that make the band a not-to-be-missed act.

TOMORROWS TULIPS, w/ Skull & the Dullards, Snuff Redux, 8 p.m., Sunday, June 8, 21+, Le Voyeur, 404 Fourth Ave. E., Olympia, 360.943.5710