Scour Order is another installment in a long body of work defined by virtuosic instrumentality, shrieks, and growls, but it stands on its own within their vast discography. It’s still a riff-labyrinth cemented on trembling ground but there’s a steadiness that gives the sense that the band wants the edifices they’re building to stand tall.
Lily Seabird spoke about her album being a right place, right time scenario. A perfect, dark, yearning collision of moments aligning spawned a record that really takes root and grows inside you with every listen. It gives voice to the brooding thoughts, the modern angst, and the ever-painful feelings of loss.
While “Radio Station” introduced the record with a dirge of art pop bliss amid disorienting acoustics, “Sleep” peels things back, opting for a change in landscape. Taking a reflective approach to the writing, Elena Tonra is reliving time in passing moments, captured in both the lyrics and the song’s composition.
DOOMED!, the 45 year-old rapper’s collab effort with producer Kenny Segal, is as clever as ever. Hooks allegorize Street Fighter combos, allusions to Austrian physicists, and sardonic interpolations of Instagram lingo. What sets the record apart, however, is the painful intimacy with which that same wittiness is employed.
