Earlier this year Nape Neck released a self-titled collection, pairing together both their first full length and the Look Alive EP. It’s a wonderful place to start for anyone looking for a good rattling, and thankfully, they’re back for more with new album The Shallowest End, due out on September 19th.
“Spectres” is the record’s fouth single, a song aimed for spooky season, at least in terms of how we wrestle with the events of our past and the trauma that can linger. Street Eaters dig into their post-hardcore influences, pushing and pulling in all directions like a ghost with sifting through a colander.
The record expands upon the project’s industrial experimentation, lurking deep in atmospheric dread and jarring no wave, everything given its own space to settle. There’s a refined patience to the album. Sure, it’s still noisy, avant-garde, and penetrating, but it does all that with an emphasis on nuance.
Besta Quadrada’s first full length is a self-described “bratty hardcore” record, jam packed with caustic rippers and bouncy rhythms. Much like Rotary Club or Judy And The Jerks, the band tear through each buzzing song with a surge of personality, the songwriting equal parts rippling anxiety, sass, and sarcasm.
Guck’s latest single, “GUBAR,” oozes and pulses, the repetition of the chord progression pounding away like a sledgehammer to pavement. While the riff is locked into a psych tinged dread, it gives room for both the drums and vocals to explore, embracing the opportunity with their own ruthless charms.
