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Rock · 2011 · 10 tracks · 35m

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Jagged guitars and skeletal funk grooves collide with sharp sociological critiques. A lean, tense return to the band's signature percussive post-punk sound.

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It's the original architects of post-punk showing the new kids how to make anxiety sound like a dance party.

A sharp, clinical agitation that finds a strange kind of joy in rhythmic friction and social deconstruction.

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Dry Intimate+1.1σ

The production is pushed notably harder into dry intimate than this artist usually allows.

Tracklist · 10 Tracks · 35m
01
She Said ‘You Made a Thing of Me’
3:50
02
You Don’t Have to Be Mad
3:16
03
Who Am I?
3:35
04
I Can’t Forget Your Lonely Face
3:57
05
You’ll Never Pay for the Farm
3:53
06
I Party All the Time
3:43
07
A Fruitfly in the Beehive
3:45
08
It Was Never Gonna Turn Out Too Good
2:49
09
Do as I Say
3:26
10
I Can See From Far Away
2:59
Moments Worth Waiting For
the sudden abrasive guitar scratch that opens track 1 like a physical jolt
the way the bassline in track 6 creates a danceable groove that feels intentionally uncomfortable
the sparse interlocking rhythm of track 5 where the silence between notes is as loud as the instruments
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