Geez, not every day that a new rock record floors me like Cuticles have! The 7” from earlier this year was great, but the LP kicks it up a whole other level. All at once contemporary and off-the-cuff yet melodic lo fi clatter that avoids so much of the annoying art-rock or neanderthal-rock posturing that seems to float around these days, just uncut no BS guitar music!
One that recalls for me the frenzied spew of ideas that comes from Guided By Voices at their best, the friends jamming with friends freedom of Destiny 3000, the unabashed abandon of Brendan and Steph duetting on the Boomgates track ‘Bright Idea’ years ago, the hooks of Mordecai, or the more chaotic Axemen-adjacent edges of the NZ underground!
-Mitch