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\"Spray<\/a>Austin\u2019s current kings of neurotic bummer-punk have put out their most confident and cohesive record yet, Dopers<\/i> (Monofonus Press). Trading in much of their earlier treble shrapnel for a rich thickness, the band keeps these songs mired in a funny\/sad stasis where the night\u2019s gotten too cold, but the sun is plotting enemy action. Several of Dopers\u2019<\/i> best songs hover around that moment of horrifying, ecstatic clarity in the middle of an afterparty. The opener, \u201cBad Times,\u201d uses drums as washes of shadow and flecks of life washing over guitars that careen and plunge before the song climaxes with a whirlpool of static. Lines like, \u201cNow I\u2019m coughing up blood, let\u2019s take it to the country!\u201d and \u201cThe late night speed was a bad idea. Don\u2019t ask what we\u2019re breathing,\u201d float to the surface and submerge again. \u201cSignal Matter\u201d is a dance of swivel-hipped isolation with circling, repetitive guitars punctuated by rock hard drumbeats caked in distortion that recalls a choked, gnarled heartbeat.<\/p>\n

Spray Paint avoid solipsism here, unlike many authors of this brand of end-of-the-party record. There\u2019s a keen eye for other people, for characters, even if the empathy is filtered through dry eyes and sour smoke. \u201cGoth Apologist\u201d is one of the finest songs in the \u201cbartender as arbiter\/God\u201d sub-genre in awhile, hitting the same sweet spot as Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments\u2019 \u201cEl Cajon\u201d and Leonard Cohen\u2019s \u201cClosing Time\u201d for the kind of listener who makes room for both those tentpoles. Surging low notes thrashed by high-end neon squiggle through an austere sculpture. It hints at a story in shattered fragments from mercurial points of view: \u201cShe lost 10 years in there, somewhere\u2026 Wracked with the habit, she ain\u2019t no stranger\u2026 She can pour a stiff drink. It gives me a solid feeling.\u201d \u201cVoice Modulator\u201d is a relentless, scratchy yearning with guitars lurching forward through a parody of punk sloganeering that has the sting of a real accusation by someone who has it even worse: \u201cPeople here always give me their money. No one here has ever been starving.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnyone Else Want In\u201d is the moment everything comes together as a six-plus minute tour de force in jittery shuffle time with rubbery guitar work. It pans down the sad street walked from last call to dawn. \u201cIt\u2019s not ideal, but it\u2019s vacant. It\u2019s one of two. These fucking cowards, they\u2019re in bad shape.\u201d It\u2019s followed by a palate-cleansing instrumental, \u201cGravity Drainer,\u201d that lets the preceding track fully sink in. Dopers<\/i> is a perfect example of a record splitting apart the DNA of musical genres and scenes before refabricating it, leaving out what doesn\u2019t directly apply to the task at hand to create something that feels as fresh as those nights you only remember in broad strokes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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