Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM / 21+MAN ON MANMAN ON MANYou remember your pandemic project, dont you? Maybe it was baking bread, cultivating a garden, or finally committing to Proust? But for Roddy Bottum and Joey Holmanback then, a new couple of longtime musicians, en route from New York City to California to care for Roddys ailing motherit was writing songs, meant only to entertain themselves in those suddenly idle days. Joey, after all, had his guitar in the car; during the road trip west, they ordered a microphone, waiting for them in California where theyd live and work from a cozy beachside A-frame. They got to work but, really, to play, shaping a dynamic string of new-love songs about tender infatuation, the ache of all-consuming lust, and the excitement of a full future, together. Its so fun, they cooed in content unison, to be gay, their own birds-and-bees ode to joy. Those songs stuck around, accreting not only into an album but into the band MAN ON MAN, lauded by Rolling Stone and loved for music videos that documented the real romance of two fully grown gay men. That pandemic project? Suddenly, a little hit.MAN ON MANs triumphant and pop-powered return, Provincetown is the result of an accidental band moving with sudden intention and two once-new partners growing into a deeper relationship. Written largely in that tip-of-the-Cape haven that gives the record its name, Provincetown cavorts even as it poses complicated questions about what it means to be queer, alive, and in love in the first quarter of this anxious American century. There are peppy hookup-app blues, queer history lessons set to contagious electroclash, unfettered celebrations of sex and summertime funglitter bombs all, set off to light up these often-dark times. Windows down, let em see/Weve got nothing to hide, they sing during the enormous and insistent I Feel Good, boldly answering the titles refrain with I feel great/In these United States. It is, like all of Provincetown, a massive rainbow flag in the groundnot a statement of existence so much as a proclamation of defiant thriving. Cum, if you will, and take it.If MAN ON MANs self-titled debut represented the start of their relationship, Provincetownfinished just as they neared the four-year markrepresents its steady maturation and the gifts therein. They now know what about the other makes them tick better. For Bottum, a veteran of big-time rock bands, Holman represented the first time he felt fully embraced by a collaborator, that he didnt have to scream for his ideas to be heard. (And its not, mind you, because they share the same tastes. Holman loves Silverchair. Bottum is a Sparks superfan.) For Holman, meanwhile, its Bottums ability to reduce thorny ideas, whether lyrically or musically or emotionally, into more digestible notions.