As much as the intellectualized word vomit pouring into a post-hardcore adrenaline rush that is Drug Church has offered a jolt to this bleak existence these last several years, Patrick Kindlon’s main and most punk considered of creative expressions in his experimentally shape-shifting outlet Self Defense Family has been dearly missed since going amiss six years ago. “Reclusion” is an apt reminder of why and bares with it the self-awareness in its title as to SDF’s natural ways of being on its own terms.

Kindlon has gone on the record saying that a new found perfectionism in the face of morbid reality has become the impingement in completing the band’s new material, and that’s not exactly a bad thing here as we encounter him alongside his cast of New York scene outsiders in succinct thought, as surly, slow unraveling of art-punk guitars and rolling drum work precipitates its own take on existing without needing to be seen or heard.

“My wife and I / Will live a life that’s quiet / Walk a wave-lined aisle / Ceremony of silence,” he proclaims. “Matrimony with three / Her, myself, and peace / Four walls, wood beams / Far away from the screams.” There’s no need to yell here, or to create chaos. The noisiest of exclamations are in the way each word emerges with a profound grace that can only be found from finding a home outside of this world within it.

Self Defense Family’s “Reclusion” single is available now on Run for Cover Records.