Disq have assembled a razor-sharp, teetering-on-the-edge-of-chaos
melange of sounds, experiences, memories, and influences. Due out
March 6 on Saddle Creek, Collector ought to be taken literally—it is
a place to explore and catalogue the Madison, Wisconsin band’s
relationships to themselves, their pasts, and the world beyond the
American Midwest as they careen from their teens into their 20s. This
turbulence is backdropped by gnarled power pop, anxious post-punk,
warm psych-folk, and hectic, formless, tongue-in-cheek indie
rock.Collector, like the band itself, is defined and tightly-contoured
by the ties between the five members. Raina Bock (bass/vocals) and
Isaac deBroux-Slone (guitar/vocals) have known each other from
infancy, growing up and into music together. Through gigging around
Madison, they met and befriended Shannon Connor (guitar/keys), Logan
Severson (guitar/backing vocals), and Brendan Manley (drums)—three
equally dedicated and adventurous musicians committed to coaxing genre
boundaries.
Produced by Rob Schnapf, Collector is a set of songs largely pulled
from each of the five members’ demo piles over the years. They’re
organic representations of each moment in time, gathered together to
tell a mixtape-story of growing up in 21st century America. The songs
are marked by urgency, introspection, tongue-in-cheek nihilism, and a
shrewd understanding of pop and rock structures and their
corollaries—as well as a keen desire to dialogue with and upset
them.
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