For five days this week Seattle’s Noise for the Needy festival brings to stages across the city a veritable flurry of local and extra-local talent, all in support of Real Change. Our sponsored bill goes off this weekend with Portland’s Loch Lomond at the helm making their first visit to Columbia City Theater, supported by Big Sur, Goldfinch and The Horde & The Harem.

Early on in 2011 Loch Lomond snuck their new record Little Me Will Start A Storm in under our noses, passing us by until Haley Young’s video for “Elephants and Little Girls” (below) got our attention. The concept is cute, a one-shot marvel of visual trickery that by the end even makes fun of itself a bit, turning out playful in it’s final touches and resolution. Such a production is every bit as intricate as Loch Lomond’s own efforts for just about everything they do. Little Me Will Start A Storm employs a true choir of voices in ways most pop music doesn’t venture, and manages instrumentation more delicate still than fellow Northwest baroque pop powerhouses Grand Hallway and Campfire OK construct.

With four bands on the bill at the Columbia City Theater, the music will be starting a bit earlier than usual, probably around 9. Entrance is $12. Snag tickets in advance online.