Neutrals - New Town Dream CD

A New Town dream arrives in the real-life Newtown…

Bay Area group Neutrals return with a UK-leaning brand of jangling post-punk, putting the social commentary back into Television Personalities worship and continuing on the concerns of UK group, Hygiene.

A concept album of sorts that charts the mundane happenings of a new suburban development, it makes me think that the band were reading Ballard’s High Rise alongside that classic lockdown history tome, Robert Caro’s The Power Broker. Promises of social stability and community erode away into overpasses, drunken violence, concrete, abused public servants, chips and curry sauce, shitty drugs, and poor wages but with a constant promise of something more.
-Mitch