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Little Insects CD Release, Pharaoh Ileto

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Critic's Pick

Somewhere between a Wes Anderson movie and a suicide note lies Orlando’s Omar Delarosa, a multi-instrumentalist and pop aficionado who, as Matisse and Carrots and now Little Insects, manages to sell mopey, twee lines like, “Could I just have my wasted time back/And all my stuff back?” without coming off as pathetic. Much of that owes to Delarosa’s astoundingly out-of-time command of precious instruments like the glockenspiel to inform his songwriting, and not the other way around. Little Insects’ new album, Almost Ghost, is laden with moments of simple pleasures – the instrumental “Casio Drone,” the bouncy “Losing (My Self Confidence),” the amusingly apocalyptic “After the End” – that its tendency to lapse into morbid depression only makes the melodrama seem like part of the act. For Delarosa’s well being, let’s hope it is. (with Pharaoh Ileto; 9 p.m. at Stardust Video & Coffee, 1842 E. Winter Park Road; free; stardustrules.com) (Staff)