PACKS Take the Cake Tee

PACKS Take the Cake TeeTorontos PACKS make music thats like leafing through a diary entry of a time without visible movement, a subtle beauty that appears only when paying close attention. The bands debut is a collection of songs that marry the loose but incisive jangle of early Pavement with the barbed sweetness of Sebadoh and the wide eyed wonder of the first Shins LP. Written in two different settings, between the city limits of Toronto where Link was living in 2019, and

the Alchemist and frequent collaborator Paul White

who are associated with the new breed of dance music producers from in and around Washington DC

when Ross began workshopping new material during soundcheck on the ILYSM tour

Pom Pom Squad’s sophomore LP

Disaster Trick

but it’s no exaggeration to say that nearly every line sung on this record provokes thought in endless directions

entirely on his own terms

and is produced and mixed Sam Petts-Davies

Recorded shortly after their tour supporting Arctic Monkeys

It’s also striking just how much fun they seem to be having in the process

an anomalous blend of punk and psychedelic drumming carries the songs with an atmosphere of organized chaos

Indiana’s debut EP documents where they’ve been