On the Brooklyn musician’s debut album, sounds shrink and stretch, distinctions between digital and analog become wholly irrelevant, recognizable melodies stutter or fizzle out or get replaced as soon as they’re on the precipice of legibility.
The North Carolina band’s third album does a scary good job of intoning the nihilism of a country stripped of its core, reduced to an empty, rotted-out vacuum of empty promises stretching out into infinity.
“First of all, ladies, the Diesel got way more game than that,” the NBA Hall of Famer said on his podcast this week, correcting the narrative around his DM history.