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Flat Worms
Flat Worms
country: USA
genre: Rock
styles: Alternative, Garage Rock, Noise, Garage Punk
Letters From the Outpost / Diver
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Fresh off last year’s exceptional Witness Marks LP, Flat Worms boomerang back with a two-song digi-single recorded at Harmonizer Studio and mastered by Mikey Young. Raising the stakes on their evolving song style (global-collapse fabulism writ with dry ink-black humor), their thrusting, surging post-punk style produces an increasingly cinematic evocation of resignation and perseverance, set against an endless landscape of scorched earth.
“Letters From the Outpost” is delivered with Flat Worms’ signature seizure-inducing chalk + nails guitar and deceptively blunt-force song style, drawing comparison to ancestral forbears such as Mission of Burma, Joy Division and The Fall; all of them were long ago injected into the fetal DNA of the band’s exuberant slash and grind. The flip, “Diver” opens with a spine-churning progression, bleak and funereal, above which flies a fanfare of guitar leads entwined, blowing ragged but valiant in the fitful wind. Shifting speeds (in hopes of divining an escape route?), Flat Worms’ mordant lyric visions and gaspingly caustic guitar tone lead us instead though a mini-epic of Kafka-esque seaside survivalist horror. Essential gleaning!
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