The debut LP of this Kansas City, Missouri group feels to me like a thoroughly pleasant throwback into the early 2010s post punk era when the genre - or let's just say one particular branch of it, 'cos that whole diverse genre cluster gets reduced to that one '70s proto-goth strain way too often when even back then, there was much more going on than just that - was still recovering from its hyper-commercialized, heavily codified and watered-down 2000s phase of bland Joy Division worship, after which you saw groups like Rank/Xerox, Criminal Code, early Diät and many others sorta returning to and putting their own spin on the basics, to branch out from there and gradually rejuvinate the genre going forward. We've come a long way since then. As such, this record won't blow anyone's mind through innovation and originality but instead brings back the more basic thrills of very deliberately and carefully constructed post punk time capsules, a simpler type of pleasure that still works admirably if you give your tunes and arrangements some rigid structural stability, the care and attention to detail they need to shine. This record does so, plain and simple, to undeniably hard-hitting results.