s/t - Apathy & Exhaustion

Ogikubo Station – s/t 12in (Asian Man Records, 2017)

You could make immediate mental leaps to The Evens (Ian MacKaye and Amy Farina, Dischord Records) as this is an duo comprised of someone that

Wow. I’ve been pretty blown away by this record. I’d somehow managed to ignore that in their native Montreal, these guys are considered to be

From the aching opening lines of Cincinnati, “It takes everything that I’ve got not to cry, when I’m lying awake at night and I’m remembering

First off, this has got to be a hot contender for one of the best records of 2017, and we’ve barely even got started yet.

Technically, this is a semi-reprint of the original review from last year when our dude Mike at Dead Broke Rekerds originally put this out stateside.