MODERN CYNICS - Auditory Postcards (CASS) Recess Records heartbreak

heartbreak

Anachronous is their latest symphony

Vinyl manufactured at 45 RPM by Archer Record Pressing in Detroit

their desire to rock is just too infectious to ignore

re-configuring rather than regurgitating influences and crafting songs which will lodge themselves firmly into the head of any listener

MODERN CYNICS - Auditory Postcards (CASS) Recess Records heartbreakYour first problem was demanding some sort of rationale behind Modern Cynics. Thats pre pandemic thinking. The core conceit's easy enough: tight little punk songs that (with a single exception) stick to less than a dozen unique words. Under that thumb, we find Matty Grace, twisting, bending over backwards, stripped of the lyrical toolkit that powers her folk punk ventures. Why though? Why suffer such an arbitrary constraint? Tedium. Boredom. Lockdown.