MALADIA - Sacred Fires LP Guitar Picking Songs like “Resolution” and “Strange

Songs like “Resolution” and “Strange Game” live up to the legacy of Blondie and The Psychedelic Furs

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barrelling breakbeats wrapped up in fluidly contoured synth schematics that probe mutant corners of the dance

It reminds me a lot on bands like The Pine

Listeners who followed the Northwest trio down the tangled briar of mathematical riffs and hypnotic battery on The Deal or through the unfettered eruptions and methodical dissonance of What One Becomes are aware that SUMAC eschews the conventional balladry typically associated with odes to our spiritual connectedness

MALADIA - Sacred Fires LP Guitar Picking Songs like “Resolution” and “StrangeMALADIA Sacred Fires 12EP stands on an abyss made of the hiss and fog of a thousand generated cassette demos and the murky despair of damaged electronics and overloaded amplifiers. Equal doses of raw punk from the Southern Hemisphere and 80s European hc punk influences mingle with harrowing and desperate vocal cries, echoing RUDIMENTARY PENI and NERORGASMO as if both bands were hanging out in the back seat of a tour van listening to ANTISECT on a