“Fugue State Companion” is a bold reminder that art’s past will always be appreciated in a future lens, and what may have been dismissed then could very well be regarded as nothing else like it was yesterday – or even today for that matter. The penultimate track and unreleased gem off Blue Period, the D.C. art punk heroes Beauty Pills’ forthcoming compilation of then-ired 2003 – 2005-era Dischord Records releases – rich with additional B-sides, demoes, and lost tracks – we hear the band’s leader Chad Clark attuned into a direction that pushed the scene’s cosmetically punk aggression into an introspective layer where atmosphere plumes and softer melodies set the political and social of his lyricism into its own wandering daze. We’re still wandering and lost in a modern day America, and the music of the punk has only gravitated into this direction as well.

Beauty Pill’s Blue Period will be released January 20th on Ernest Jenning Record Co.