Bandcamp Picks of the Week 10/7/2021

Superdestroyer’s social media bio now describes his music as fifth wave emo, but before the widespread adoption of that term, the anonymous Ohio artist was waving a less contentious and (at least aspirationally) cooler banner: post-genre. On the inter-artist level, it brings everything on his Lonely Ghost Records label under the same umbrella, including the trippy instrumental hip-hop of Leave Nelson B and the emo songwriting of Arise, Sir!. It also serves as a guiding artistic principle, though, and on the new Superdestroyer record SUCH JOY, it lands at the point where terminally-online DIY meets the forward-thinking eclecticism of better-known heavy bands like Turnstile.

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