Excellent second album, following 2018’s debut Endless Scroll, by the punchy Brooklyn post-punk band, packed with sharp lyrics, driving rhythms and riffs, with central theme of how we are defined and shaped by outside influences and perceptions, from city environment to advertising. Opener Thrown sets that pattern in place, Doers focuses on the manic lifestyle that their home city demands, while NYC (Disambiguation) stresses the power base of New York’s corporations. Intelligent and boldly energetic there is also some branching out in style with different elements of rock and pop as well as punk, echoes of Lou Reed to LCD Soundsystem, and the heartbreak acoustic closing number, After Jane. There’s a distinctively 80s guitar sound (Public Image Limited / Killing Joke) on Pillar On The Bridge Of You, and among several standouts, songwriters and singers Ben Hozie and Nikki Belfiglio also tag-teaming on No Blade of Grass, with its “apocalypse dreams for end of the world”, presumably inspired by the anarchic 1970 feature film. Literate, sharp and catchy, there’s so much to explore and enjoy here, growing over several listens. Out on What’s Your Rupture.
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