Photo by Pooneh Ghana

Porcelain are up to something interesting. Last year, the Austin rockers broke through the underground with their buzzworthy self-titled debut and one of the year’s best as an early entry on Portrayal of Guilt’s burgeoning label. It was obvious back then that their approach to post-hardcore, noise-rock, and heavier indie rock was making a loud sound befitting of these uneasy times in their deeply introspective brain-rattlings. Since then, their DIY mythos has grown as they’ve toured with the likes of kindred noisemakers Chat Pile and Agriculture, are currently on the road at this very moment with the resurgent Pelican, and later this fall, an already-sold out honor of opening for luminaries, Unwound.

The band’s newly-released 7″ single featuring the A-side “Harmony” and flipside of “Torch” can be heard as a bridge between the bricks being dropped into place last year and where the four-piece are going with its follow-up. Neither is a carbon copy element of the other, with “Harmony” tempering methodical dotted lines against combustible blowouts and “Torch” ringing through with off-wielding guitar aerodynamic maneuvers that refract upon our own world’s downward spiral. “Dismember my thoughts,” vocalist and guitarist Stephen Pike instructs us on the latter. The interplay of build and crash-out between the two listens definitely hinges Porcelain’s future (and humanity’s) on a dangerous brink, making it all the more necessary to eye and ear closely.

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Porcelain’s “Harmony” b/w “Torch” 7″ single is available now on TODO Records.