Public Strain

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  2010

  James

  The album constantly shifts between beauty and disintegration. Delicate melodies, tape hiss, jagged noise, and anxious rhythms blur together into songs that feel unstable even at their prettiest. Patrick Flegel and Matt Flegel create tension by allowing the music to sound unfinished and vulnerable rather than tightly controlled. Few records capture emotional alienation this vividly without becoming emotionally closed-off. Women would soon transition into Viet Cong and then Preoccupations.