Lifeguard - Ripped and Torn (2025) [Hi-Res]
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BAND/ARTIST: Lifeguard
- Title: Ripped and Torn
- Year Of Release: 2025
- Label: Matador
- Genre: Noise rock, Experimental rock, Post-punk
- Quality: FLAC 24-Bit/44.1 kHz; 16-Bit/44.1 kHz; MP3 320 kbps
- Total Time: 00:30:43
- Total Size: 76; 201; 357 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Review
The world is changing fast for the Chicago teenagers in Lifeguard. After a pair of much-praised EPs, this smart and ambitious trio have released a knockout debut, Ripped and Torn. With echoes of Unwound, Bauhaus, and Fugazi, their sharp, well-rehearsed, high-volume originals walk the line between outright noise rock and the occasional melodic turn that doesn't lessen the impact. Lifeguard have honed their songwriting to an edge that belies their age, and like the buzzing amps that can be heard at the conclusion of several tracks, singer/guitarist Kai Slater, drummer Isaac Lowenstein and singer/bassist Asher Case all have energy and atonal ambitions to burn. (Case's musical curiosities are a family affair—his father Brian Case was in Chicago indie rock bands 90 Day Men and The Ponys, and currently plays in FACS.) "Like You'll Lose" is a loud/soft krautrock-influenced ride with a stinging guitar. Starting with a keyboard drone, "Under Your Reach" blossoms into a near anthem. While the lyrics will improve with time, the words in that track nevertheless do the job—"All your spite/ On your pillow/ Not for all/ That flower." Opening with guitar shriek, "How To Say Deisar" threatens to continue as a full-on basher, but soon becomes more settled; a steady drumbeat precedes the barking lines, "You say something/ I say something too." Lifeguard's inner fires emerge in several just-for-fun cacophonous blasts. The twenty-four seconds of "Me and My Flashes" forcefully wipes the palette clean, and in "Music for 3 Drums," galloping drums and feedback feed off the trio's unrestrained passions. Filled with more drums and guitar feedback, "Charlie's Vox" pauses before resuming its clanking trek. The title track is as grand as this collection gets with repeated chords and drums before the volume recedes and Slater and Case sing, "You're teacher's pet." And with the next and final track, "T.L.A.," Lifeguard reaches for something deeper, asserting "Words like tonality come to me/ The kind of thing that breaks." © Robert Baird
Tracklist:
1 A Tightwire
2 It Will Get Worse
3 Me and My Flashes
4 Under Your Reach
5 How to Say Deisar
6 (I Wanna) Break Out
7 Like You'll Lose
8 Music for 3 Drums
9 France And
10 Charlie's Vox
11 Ripped + Torn
12 T.L.A.
The world is changing fast for the Chicago teenagers in Lifeguard. After a pair of much-praised EPs, this smart and ambitious trio have released a knockout debut, Ripped and Torn. With echoes of Unwound, Bauhaus, and Fugazi, their sharp, well-rehearsed, high-volume originals walk the line between outright noise rock and the occasional melodic turn that doesn't lessen the impact. Lifeguard have honed their songwriting to an edge that belies their age, and like the buzzing amps that can be heard at the conclusion of several tracks, singer/guitarist Kai Slater, drummer Isaac Lowenstein and singer/bassist Asher Case all have energy and atonal ambitions to burn. (Case's musical curiosities are a family affair—his father Brian Case was in Chicago indie rock bands 90 Day Men and The Ponys, and currently plays in FACS.) "Like You'll Lose" is a loud/soft krautrock-influenced ride with a stinging guitar. Starting with a keyboard drone, "Under Your Reach" blossoms into a near anthem. While the lyrics will improve with time, the words in that track nevertheless do the job—"All your spite/ On your pillow/ Not for all/ That flower." Opening with guitar shriek, "How To Say Deisar" threatens to continue as a full-on basher, but soon becomes more settled; a steady drumbeat precedes the barking lines, "You say something/ I say something too." Lifeguard's inner fires emerge in several just-for-fun cacophonous blasts. The twenty-four seconds of "Me and My Flashes" forcefully wipes the palette clean, and in "Music for 3 Drums," galloping drums and feedback feed off the trio's unrestrained passions. Filled with more drums and guitar feedback, "Charlie's Vox" pauses before resuming its clanking trek. The title track is as grand as this collection gets with repeated chords and drums before the volume recedes and Slater and Case sing, "You're teacher's pet." And with the next and final track, "T.L.A.," Lifeguard reaches for something deeper, asserting "Words like tonality come to me/ The kind of thing that breaks." © Robert Baird
Tracklist:
1 A Tightwire
2 It Will Get Worse
3 Me and My Flashes
4 Under Your Reach
5 How to Say Deisar
6 (I Wanna) Break Out
7 Like You'll Lose
8 Music for 3 Drums
9 France And
10 Charlie's Vox
11 Ripped + Torn
12 T.L.A.
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