Artist: Feeling Figures, the four-piece of guitarist and vocalist Kay Moon, guitarist and vocalist Zak Slax, bassist Joe Chamandy, and drummer Thomas Molander

Location: Montreal, Canada

Buzz: If you slept on Migration Magic, last year’s debut album from Montreal art-punks Feeling Figures, you actually have a great opportunity to connect the dots in a Fire Walk With Me kind of way if your starting point with the band is this September’s upcoming sophomore follow-up, Everything Around You. It’s one of those rare occasions where a band disrupts their own timeline by releasing an album recorded before its previous effort afterward. In this case, they’re reconstructing its punchy art-punk popped out in reverse through the delirium vibrations that turn up on Everything Around You‘s early highlights like “Swimming” and “Doors Wide Open”. The four-piece of Joe Chamandy, Zakary Sla, Kay Moon, and Thomas Molander don’t tout themselves as breaking any molds within DIY rock’s ramshacklest of energies, but between influences that rest somewhere between Sonic Youth’s more sinister rippers and the dreamy power-pop of fellow Canucks Alvvays set to tape, Feeling Figures create an eerie presence in their spark that sets Everything apart from the rest of the anxious static.

Sound: The ripple and the hiss of art class punk that’s all fun and games when wrapped up in pop hooks until you realizing it’s pulling you from the dog days of summer into darker, more treacherous seasons to come.

Recommended: “Swimming” and “Doors Wide Open” off their forthcoming sophomore album, Everything Around You, and last year’s debut full-length, Migration Magic

Directed by: Zak Slax

Directed by: Obe Anderson & Feeling Figures

Feeling Figures’ Everything Around You will be released September 27th on K Records / Perennial.