Postearth

Feels, “Postearth” (Wichita, 2019)
Followup to their debut (I think) on Castle Face is even better. Where others draw the template for their revived modular/heavy/melodic postpunkish alternarock stylings from the ‘90s “brand,” this group goes further to the subgenre’s late-‘80s origins, when it was still forming and therefore more varied, volatile, and arresting. Songs speed up out of nowhere, split open into noise-dustballs, bear down obsessively and just generally command the attention while remaining plausibily (and pleasurably) songlike.
Try 1/ 2, 1/6, 2/5
4/7/19