TV Freaks - Bad Luck Charms (2015)

With a fistful of singles and two albums to hide behind, Hamilton, ON’s TV Freaks spew up a miasma of contradictions for their third LP: angular yet liquid, chunky but with gravy, and like a sour grape, hard to keep down - it’s the aptly titled 'Bad Luck Charms'. Produced by Mr. Dallas Good, this record is art made by near-descendants of early man and as intricate and nuanced as a Biblical fresco, painted with a boulder instead of a brush. Pummelling primal rhythm blocks battle with snaky guitars and static-shock bass as a man cries out and rips his own shirt off, with nothing more to offer but his own flesh. Is our luck about to turn?
--Don Pyle