Kuvaus
New York’s Straw Man Army return with ’SOS’, the follow-up to their 2020 debut LP, ’Age of Exile’. Emerging from the D4MT Labs group that also includes Kaleidoscope and Tower 7, Straw Man Army’s delicate musical touch, embrace of melody, and rapid-fire, clearly articulated vocals separate them from the louder and noisier end of New York’s fertile punk scene. While ’Age of Exile’ examined the legacy of colonialism through the musical milieu of melodic anarcho-punk, ’SOS’ turns its attention to the increasingly bleak prospects for the human race and planet earth. While Straw Man Army’s lyrical approach remains dense and thought provoking on ’SOS’, their musical scope grows wider, encompassing ’Age of Exile’s’ melodic take on anarcho, bleak and brooding post-punk, psychedelic instrumental excursions, and even the wistful pop of album highlight ’Beware’. ’SOS’ is everything Straw Man Army’s fans could have hoped for in a follow-up and so much more, cementing the band’s status as one of the most original, exciting, and important groups in the contemporary punk underground (Daniel Lupton)
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released April 15, 2022
Recorded by Straw Man Army at D4MT LABS INC. 2020-2021
Mixed by Evan Mersky at Red Lantern Studios, PDX
Mastered by Will Killingsworth
SMA is Owen and Sean
Additional Instrumentation:
Shiva—drums on ”Faces in the Dark” and ”Day 49”
Joe—guitar on ”Faces in the Dark”
Layouts by SMA
Lettering by Shiva
