Activity - Unmask Whoever (Color)

Activity - Unmask Whoever (Color)Activity are an avant four piece featuring Travis Johnson, and drummer Steve Levine, both from the band Grooms, bassist Zo Browne from Field Mouse, and guitarist Jess Rees from Russian Baths. Produced by engineer Jeff Berner of Psychic TV, their debut forms a casually menacing framework for lyrical themes of paranoia, exposed character flaws, and the broader human capacity for growth when an ugly truth is laid bare. Lead single "Calls Your Name,"

" It all begins with imagery

and "Quiet Temple" really squeeze the creative juice off the trio's playing

and quirky

Vices borrows from the perfectly constructed pop songs of the 1960s

a song that builds on Spoon's familiar minimal rhythmic piano/guitar vamp popularized on earlier hits like "Small Stakes" or "The Way We Get By"

further enriching the tapestry of electric and acoustic sounds that mesh so vibrantly throughout Hyperuranion

O Gentle Savior

the struggle to create art

FAY CLAASSEN

1 LP 180-gram heavy vinyl edition

meaning they had to get things right quickly

and "Cali Culture" co-composed by Ambrose Akinmusire and Binney