Precedent is the kind of album that will hurt until its impact is seen and heard fully not just by the individual, but maybe recognized fully through a shared experience in pain management. The debut album from the Philly screamo next-gens, which consists of Closer’s Ryann Slauson in spoken word and sung vocals, the heretic screams of guitarist Harim Jung, bassist Michael Englisis, and drummer Keean Mansour, serves to recognize traumas, grief, anxieties, and every weight this ugly world has to offer, and goes one step further in repairing its damage through extreme sonic therapy.

The torch engulfed before them in headwound trailblazers like Orchid, Thursday, and Touche Amore kindles in these seven tracks, yet Sonagi reinterpret the genre’s chaos as a meditative duality between naturistic violence and its aftermath. For this, Precedent is emblematic to the romanization of the band’s name, the Korean word 소나기 – meaning “sudden showers” – where what comes after the storm has a beauty in its process to begin again in the wake of devastation.

Highlights: “Ambivalence”, “Projective Identification”, “Who Could See You and Forget”

Sonagi’s Precedent is available now on Get Better Records.