Pennsylvania’s and Portugal’s Zack Schwartz, Corey Wichlin, and Rivka Ravede return with another bewildering collection of abstract, feverish dream weirdest deconstructionist experimental rock, with a collection of 12 songs that at times feel more like a hundred. Following 2023’s I’m So Lucky, which explored the breakup between Schwartz and Ravede, this fifth LP is actually less chop-and-change, and is described a continued meditation on the end of relationships and the unsteadiness that follows. Like their acclaimed 2021 album Entertainment, Death, it’s crash-bang release of numerous sudden interruptions pace and style within an indie, prog, shoegazey umbrella, like some feverish dream experience, hard to listen at times, then strangely alluring at others. Stranger Alive, for example, feels like 20 different songs and The Cut Depicts the Cut is a bizarre mish-mash of the jittery beats and spaced out melodies. Highlights include the woozy Let The Virgin Drive, and 1/500, the poetic Sun Swept The Evening Red, and if you want it even darker, Something’s Ending/I’ve Been Evil. An album very hard to grasp, like some confusing half-horror nightmare, the sound a radio dial in a crashing car, but hard to leave alone because it’s strangely fascinating and you can’t quite wake from it. Out on Saddle Creek Records.
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