Photo by Derrick Alexander

“fd&c red 40” bleeds like a manifesto of noise rock set to one mode, and that’s chaos that is only just beginning to rupture up through the underground by ira glass. On the heels of last year’s excellent breakthrough EP, compound turbulence flexing for the heat, the BuzzSound alumni’s first single off their forthcoming extended play, joy is no knocking nation, ups the dosage in how loud and disruptive they color the room in deep in-the-violent red volume.

Aside from the usual suspects of noise agents providing articulated carnage in blistered guitars and bass and drums crashing together in atypically linear ways, the one-two elemental combo of Jill Roth’s blaring sax punctuating frontwoman Lise Ivenova’s maddeningly scattered scream-spoken brain trails really bolden the Chicago four-piece’s fingerprints out of the static of their earliest work. The walls are painted entirely red when they’re done. What liquid substance they used to do so may not entirely be obvious if we’re taking its title at face value, however…

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ira glass’ joy is no knocking nation will be released November 14th on Angel Tapes / Fire Talk.