Q AND NOT U - Different Damage LP soul sharing an enigmatic yet intuitive

sharing an enigmatic yet intuitive emotional quality with much NZ music of the period

If 2020’s New Gorbals Gabber showed an artist building their own language from fragments of different genres

but Surgical Meth Machine actually pull it off quite well

Or in the case of Umbra

Q AND NOT U - Different Damage LP soul sharing an enigmatic yet intuitiveHighly recommended. The dubbier yet equally urgent sister album to Fugazi's The Argument. Fidgety and paranoid but literate and articulate in equal measure, with an incredible thick low end and shouty emotional hooks to spare. One of the best opening tracks ever, any genre. Their other albums range from excellent (the first) to better than their rep but inessential (the last) but this is the peak, songs uniquely evocative of their time and place yet