Shieldsie’s Brian Shields Credit: Photo by Jennifer Munsey

In his life behind the guitar for Clang!, Brian Shields contributes to a krauty, hard-hitting post-punk that’ll make your neck hurt.

For his solo project Shieldsie—which plays Tampa’s Born Free Pub & Grill on Saturday, Oct. 8—the Tampeño plays introspective slowcore, which he says is “me being serious without keeping a straight face.”

A video for “Ponderin’”—from Shieldsie’s debut album, Florida Man Sings!, features home video footage on top of mid tempo electric-guitar rock. It’s all melancholy in the best way, and this show is actually the last chance to see Shields play live locally for the foreseeable future (he’s moving to Philadelphia on Nov. 1).

“Gonna miss all yall and I’ll be back visiting in tampa here and there to play shows,” he told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay.

To help say goodbye, some if his best friends (art-pop band Mtvh1n1, Merchandise frontman Carson Cox’s EBM-synth project Romeo Blu, and experimental act Cabo Boing) open the show at Sulphur Springs biker bar Born Free, which is quickly becoming a go-to spot for solid local shows.