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Today’s 12 O’Clock Track comes from the Charm City quartet’s forthcoming Drag City debut, Natural History, and it’s reminiscent of mid-90s Rollins Band—fractured, grunge heavy, and possessed. Front man Andrew Laumann tears through the guitar noise and pummeling drums with strangled yips and bloody-hell shouting that together sound like something you’d hear coming from the inpatient wing of a shock-therapy facility. These dudes have a sludgy punk nastiness that’s very much like Pissed Jeans—complete with a singer writhing on the ground in a pool of his own sweat and scuzz—but they’re fresh and dirty-rotten in their own demented way. When I saw Dope Body open for Liturgy this past summer, I had a brain-burn moment where I knew the band would reenter my life in the best way. I can’t wait for the album.
