Sub Pop records have announced the signing of Seattle's A Frames. No word yet on what their first release for the label will be. Sub Pop's highlighted some of the press the band has garnered for itself in the Northwest, in particular this piece from The Stranger:

"With their somberly mechanized, painfully smart art punk sound, A-Frames often fall into the dark sonic corner that houses such luminaries as the Fall, Wire, and Joy Division. A-Frames drummer Lars Finberg claims the best description he's heard of their sound is "if God were a robot and drunk," but to complete the picture you should imagine this supreme musical deity jerking across the dance floor to a beautifully angular set of beats."