Lifeguard - Ripped And TornOn June 6th, Chicagos Lifeguard will release their debut album Ripped and Torn on Matador Records. The youthful trio of Asher Case (bass, baritone guitar, vocals), Isaac Lowenstein (drums, synth), and Kai Slater (guitar, vocals) have been making music together since they were in high school, nearly a quarter of their lives. Noisy and immediate, cryptic but heartfelt, they draw inspiration from punk, dub, power pop and experimental sounds, and bring

trumpeter Dan Rosenboom (Burning Ghosts) and baritone/alto saxophonist Gavin Templeton (Nels Cline) put power into Thelonious Monk’s prodigious melodies and flourish blistering solos on "Evidence"

‘Loops In The Secret Society’ is a re-imagined journey through parts of both albums

It may be basic to say

The approach was not to make a 2024 sounding record but rather to go back to the 1992 mindset and create the record the band should have made then

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commissioned by Schniselle in Berlin (who also signs responsible for the previous

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wringing moments of sweetness and humour from songs of fury and lament

Alternate takes include early versions and alternate versions for “Gold Dust Woman”

Randy Rampage and Dave Gregg at the height of creative power

This one really gleams over shuffling drums

It was produced by Ross Orton