Lifeguard - "Ripped and Torn" | Album Review
Lifeguard are a band that knows bands, their styles, their history, and why their sound works, but they're never vultures or revivalists. Rather like the great art punks of the late seventies and early eighties they rip and tear apart these sounds and ideas with surgical precision. Restitching the pieces together into phenomenal three-minute slabs of Frankenstein punk that emanate a roaring radiant electricity.
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Lifeguard on Hallogallo Zine: The Radical-Youth-Punk Chronicler | Feature Interview
Hallogallo is a cipher to Chicago’s teen-beat youth revolution. Within its pages, legends the likes of NEU!’s Michael Rother and Stereolab’s Laetitia Sadier mingle with mutual aid placements and essays on leftist history. The zine is electric with serendipity, where Kai Slater’s artistic personal tastes and friendships merge with open submissions.
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (July 8th - July 14th)
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Lifeguard: The Shape of Punk to Come | Feature Interview
A week before the release of Dressed In Trenches, Lifeguard sat down with Post-Trash to set the record straight about their influences, how they go about writing their brand of ferocious, angular guitar music, rad tour spots, cool bands in an exploding Chicago local scene, and how they stay sane on the road.
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (July 3rd - July 9th)
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Lifeguard - "Crowd Can Talk" | Album Review
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Lifeguard - "I Know I Know" | Post-Trash Premiere
The teenage band, part of the same burgeoning scene as Horsegirl, play with an adventurous sense of volume, tonality, and the kind of raw musical insight that drove the catalogs of legends like Fugazi and Unwound. Lifeguard chase their own tangents, digging between post-hardcore dexterity and the refined sense of post-punk precision.
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Lifeguard - "Taking Radar b/w Loose Cricket" | Post-Trash Premiere
Taking Radar b/w Loose Cricket, due out October 29th via Chunklet (Man or Astro-Man?, Honey Radar, Spodee Boy), comes with the resilience and technicality of Unwound in their youth, built on dynamics and tension. It doesn’t even need to be said that the band are in their teens, but it does make it all the more impressive.
