Three Incendiary Boys
Deeper is a band from Chicago, Illinois. On their debut album Deeper (2018), this compact-sounding then-quartet took tightness to an extreme, achieving an almost digital feel. Intricate showers of guitar notes and metallic, razor-thin chords created a kind of aural pointillism brimming with melodies. At the time they reminded me of Bloc Party, in their […]
Soon: Shojo Winter
Like an underwater explosion, Shojo Winter’s latest EP “Somewhere Else” sends out oddly muffled shockwaves that alter the resonant space between our ears. The record starts and ends with two beautifully abstract puddles of sound, bookending four deceptively melodic songs whose sound is refracted, reverberated, expanded and modulated. It takes time to get your bearings […]