very time I see TAB the Band, I feel like I should work harder. Together for a little more than four years, the foursome has already released three meaty LPs. The latest, Zoo Noises, just dropped. Not bad for a bunch of guys who still have day jobs.

Zoo Noises is a flash flood of ’60s skirt-climbing pop, plug-and-play blue-collar rock, and drunken Americana. Adrian Perry’s vocals are dangerous at all speeds, and guitarist Lou Jannetty’s added muscle on harmonies gives the hooks real staying power. They’re the type of hooks you find in your head days later, with no clue where you heard them. Adrian’s younger brother, Tony, proves he can offer up more than crunchy riffs, showing a new restraint that makes his explosions all the mightier. The result is far more ambitious than TAB’s previous efforts. It’s like the band had to lose its virginity in the garage, lusting over sleazy Stones riffs. Like any budding rock stars, the guys in TAB learned quickly that the road isn’t as romantic as it sounds, especially when you have to lug your own gear and play for crowds that are usually there for someone else. For that reason, it feels like there’s more at stake on Zoo Noises. Is it now or never for these guys?

It’s not that TAB hasn’t tasted success. Shortly after forming in late 2006 the band toured Europe with Dinosaur Jr. It’s opened for Stone Temple Pilots, Modest Mouse, Moby’s band the Little Death, and even got a song on an episode of Entourage. It even showed off its newfound versatility with an acoustic set at the Rolling Stone offices in New York.

“Every little bit helps,” Adrian says.

I caught up with the elder of the Perry offspring (as in, the offspring of Aerosmith's Joe Perry, who’s their dad) as Peyton Manning was sealing up yet another trip to the Super Bowl. (I’m glad the Colts won, by the way. Now I can root for them to lose.) Adrian was on a train somewhere between Providence and Stamford, Connecticut, on his way to start another work week. No flannel shirts, Narragansett tallboys, or late nights for these guys. (Well, maybe there are a few late nights.) That’s because Adrian works as a lawyer specializing in technology and IP transactions at one of the world’s largest law firms. Not a bad back-up plan.

Adrian will shed the business casual this week and join the rest of the band to celebrate the release of Zoo Noises with a show at the Middle East Upstairs, and then will headline the VIP launch party for MySecretBoston.com in the Foundation Room at House of Blues. I’ll be at both. Hard work, but somebody’s got to do it.

Zoo Noises is out this week. The name sounds more like a Flaming Lips CD than a righteous rock album. Where’d it come from?

“We actually got it from Arrested Development. Buster walks in on Oscar and Lucille and is like, ‘I hear Zoo Noises.’ I think it sounds like a cool title because it seems rowdy. Some other folks asked if we did it because of Pet Sounds, which I think is funny because you could just say that Zoo Noises is like the bastardized, crappy version of Pet Sounds—it’s a less classy, messy deal.”

There are a lot of influences on this album, a lot more than TAB’s first two.

“This time around we basically said, ‘Fuck it.’ The record reflects us ripping the boundaries off and doing whatever the hell we want, and I think that’s how it’s going to be from here on in. You know, if a song sounds like it’s going to be a good metal song, we’re going to take it all the way. If a song sounds like a good pop song we are going to do whatever we can to make it affect us.”

This album sounds cleaner than previous TAB albums.

“I think that we wanted to pull this record out of the muck a little bit. The last record, Long Weekend, sounds really cool but it’s maybe a little bit garage-y. We produced the new album ourselves but we brought in outside mixers to help achieve what we wanted. It still sounds pretty badass. It sounds real, but the spectrum of the record is a lot quieter because it is cleaner—the highs are higher, the lows are lower, and you are still getting everything in between.”

In the single “She Said No (I Love You),” you sing “We got some momentum / We just need some luck / I’m not going to stop either way.” How true is this for TAB? What do you guys need to make it to the next level?

“We just need more people to help, more hands on deck. We need promotion and we need someone to take over booking shows. It’s very practical stuff, actually. We’re going to try to organize a street team to start to help with local promotion. We’re still trying to get a booking agent because booking shows is hard to do on your own, especially when you get outside your region. We’re just trying to get noticed by some of the bigger rock bands that probably would like us, and we just got to keep making noise till one of them notices. We’ve just got to keep hacking away till something happens.”

Wouldn’t a call to your dad help?

“That’s just not how it works. Even if he did something like that, it’s not the kind of success we want. No one is going to take you seriously if all you have to fall back on is, ‘Well my dad is good,’ and that’s it. The only way we are going to build lasting success is to continue to do it the way we’ve doing it, which is to basically cut your teeth like every band that we look up to and build a following and get business people on your side because they like you and not someone else.”

It seems like everybody automatically assumes that you can go to your dad. Does it ever get tiring?

“We understand it. It’s great to be a part of musical family. Me and Tony get along well with our dad and it’s a good thing. He is supportive of us just like any parent who would be supportive of his kids doing something that they believe in. But we wont be like, ‘Hey, make this happen for us’ because that’s not even in the vocabulary.”