Initial exposure to Illinois art-rock outfit
volcano! is a little like your first beer: irrespective of first impressions, you'll remember it for the foreseeable and it may well induce some latent addiction that's instinctively awoken by the scent of the trio's every return. Personally much of my adolescent interpretation of contemporary music was instructed by the falling of Beautiful Seizure through gaping letterbox and down previously uninstructed lug holes and, having swung vigorously at Piñata (the lead single from the Chicagoans' third full-length of the same name) all through the night its fidgety synths that wiggle and writhe like those that squirm within Ratatat's Classics and schizy guitar skiffling have wormed into the realm of the instantaneously accessible and ultimately unforgettable. 'With lyrical content concerning spider/bee/candy-filled-piñatas', we anxiously await the polychromatic vid already promised...
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