THE SMUDJAS - what we have is today LP Power Pop placing them in unusual situations

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Her vocal flights on those records can hardly prepare one for the intimacy and empathy of her harmonies and other voices on The Letting Go

The manic ramping-up and the inevitable come-down intertwine here

Listeners who followed the Northwest trio down the tangled briar of mathematical riffs and hypnotic battery on The Deal or through the unfettered eruptions and methodical dissonance of What One Becomes are aware that SUMAC eschews the conventional balladry typically associated with odes to our spiritual connectedness

dedicated to England's most famous porn star suicide was a slightly more post-punk effort and also features here next to aborted single tracks made before they finally gave up the ghost and resigned themselvs to the could-have-been punk pile

THE SMUDJAS - what we have is today LP Power Pop placing them in unusual situationsedition of 500 copies (100 on light blue 400 on black) 7 new tracks of great garage emo punk by the SMUDJAS from Milano, Italy. Catchy and beautiful. "The Smudjas are a punk band from the Italian city of Milan, and their sound is a giddy, melodic rush of hooks and feelings. Next month, the band will release a new EP called What We Have Is Today, and the two songs theyve shared, Different Lines and Dance & Revolution are both lo fi bursts of catharsis.