With these playful words of warning begins one of the year’s most slyly subversive indie-pop albums, Parent Teacher’s Impending Doom (due for release on Wilbur & Moore Records on 24 February 2023). Across fifteen tunes that span the gamut from pleasantly zapped indie-rock to folktronica and woozy lo-fi, Parent Teacher—who prefers to keep his real name private—confronts the buzzing absurdity of life in a declining empire.
- Zach Schonfeld