Every few years a band arrives that people struggle to describe without listing other bands, and the honest answer for this one is that the drummer is doing something nobody else is doing right now — polyrhythmic, relentless, closer to a machine failing than to rock drumming. Around that sits vocals somewhere between chant and panic and guitar that functions mostly as texture. The New York noise underground produced them and the internet spread them faster than that scene usually manages. Live is where it makes sense; the recordings sound difficult and the room sounds physical. Sets are short, which is correct. Highland Park's upstairs lodge has the volume headroom for it. Music at 8:00 PM at 104 N Avenue 56 on a Friday. Bands like this one get passed between people as a dare, and the room ends up full of everyone who took it.
Every few years a band arrives that people struggle to describe without listing other bands, and the honest answer for this one is that the drummer is doing something nobody else is doing right now — polyrhythmic, relentless, closer to a machine failing than to rock drumming. Around that sits vocals somewhere between chant and panic and guitar that functions mostly as texture. The New York noise underground produced them and the internet spread them faster than that scene usually manages. Live is where it makes sense; the recordings sound difficult and the room sounds physical. Sets are short, which is correct. Highland Park's upstairs lodge has the volume headroom for it. Music at 8:00 PM at 104 N Avenue 56 on a Friday. Bands like this one get passed between people as a dare, and the room ends up full of everyone who took it.
Every few years a band arrives that people struggle to describe without listing other bands, and the honest answer for this one is that the drummer is doing something nobody else is doing right now — polyrhythmic, relentless, closer to a machine failing than to rock drumming. Around that sits vocals somewhere between chant and panic and guitar that functions mostly as texture. The New York noise underground produced them and the internet spread them faster than that scene usually manages. Live is where it makes sense; the recordings sound difficult and the room sounds physical. Sets are short, which is correct. Highland Park's upstairs lodge has the volume headroom for it. Music at 8:00 PM at 104 N Avenue 56 on a Friday. Bands like this one get passed between people as a dare, and the room ends up full of everyone who took it.