It’s been the course of the pandemic between Ocelli, the latest EP from Weeping Icon, and the Brooklyn noise-punks’ last album in their 2019 eponymous debut full-length highlight. There’s only three tracks on this extended play from the four-piece of vocalist and guitarist Sara Fantry, bassist Sarah Reinold, noise electrician Sarah Lutkenhaus, drummer Lani Combier-Kapel born out of the hellscape that was 2020, but even so, there’s purpose in feeding off the anger from those times’ political and social dumpster fires that helps dig deeper into their crass-coated drive, and it burns through their art. Uniform’s Ben Greenburg recording vessel holds their collective rage through the dizzying sardonic static on “Two Ways”, the menacing, industrial warped timeline of “(everything has eyes)” and the accelerant of “Pigs, Shit & Trash”, as if to tell the story of that year in three parts that begins in anger and ends with them throwing that dumpster fire right into a bottomless pit.

Highlights: “Two Ways”, “(everything has eyes)”, “Pigs, Shit & Trash”

Weeping Icon’s Ocelli is available now on Fire Talk.

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