Photo by Grace Bader Conrad

“Under Your Reach”, the latest single from Lifeguard’s eagerly anticipated debut album, Ripped and Torn, is further evidence set to sonic precision amid combustibility in showcasing the young Chicago trio’s timeless underground rock acumen, but this time, from a different, sharpest angle. The object that’s much closer in the mirror than it appears from their Gen Z rear view would be that of a timeless ’70s and ’80s post-punk tutelage without falling into the trappings of cliché designs. While the thrill behind their energy is very much their own, the learnings of the sky-scaling staircases built in Boston by Mission of Burma, the tightly nerved experimental clinkering of This Heat, and the moody, militant pomp of Wire behind Asher Case’s beat conflates timelines past, present and future through their eyes. That Kai Slater and Asher Case are only becoming more firm in their grasp of harmonizing around all this noise makes them natural heirs to reigning in the discordant.

Lifeguard’s Ripped and Torn will be released June 6th on Matador Records.