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If you’ve been paying attention to the buzz around their sound, ira glass make noise-rock-fueled post-hardcore all kinds of fucked up and ugly-sounding again just like Steve Albini would have wanted it. Those details become incendiary on “where’d you get the candy baby lol”, the lead single off the Chicago quintet’s newly announced debut EP, compound turbulence flexing for the heat. Discordant and turbulent, the listen wrecks its way through through all of the culture chaos which the Windy City streets has to offer. In this particular chance encounter, vocalist Lisa Ivanova bumps paths with a cult inside the Logan Square neighborhood. “A middle aged woman walked up to me, wringing her hands / She said, ‘Help me, I’ve been prohibited access to / The present / Literal / Actual / Truth.” Her growls barely decipherable, as if possessed, and the twisted instruments aren’t there to bind the captive’s reality any time soon. Even without the context, you’d be hard-pressed to find it here…

ira glass’ compound turbulence flexing for the heat will be released July 12th on Angel Tapes.