The band’s debut EP is Love Is a Dog From Hell (Crafted Sounds).
Opening track “liadfh,” which I wager will be one of 2029’s most popular baby names, sounds like a melancholy torch ballad that mutated spontaneously after exposure to some strange catalyst; frustration, perhaps. Bassist Cilia Catello’s voice is hushed, intimate, and resigned (“Every time I want to / I call you / And let it ring / On the sidewalk / The trash blows / I kick a twig”), and the bass is pitched at a steady burble, but the guitars, squealing and grinding, rear up like limbs with minds of their own, embodying the turmoil suggested by the lyrics. The words “hypnotic” and “jarring” share little space on the Venn diagram, but this song exists within the sliver.
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