Album Release: Stuck w/ Melkbelly + Spread Joy

Stuck create music to bring tension to the forefront, pushing knotted post-punk to its breaking point, both lyrically and sonically. It’s a kick in the teeth of complacency. Stuck keep one foot in and one foot out of contemporary post-punk, drawing their own noise rock influences into the mix, creating something heavier and more feral. The band’s sound is tight, jagged, and discordant, but there’s a great deal of aggression in their approach. They manifest tension into muscular riffs and colossal rhythms, skirting between the deranged and abrasive, with sonically compelling structures and focused songwriting. The biting and often sardonic lyrics work together with the tightly wound music, a symbiosis in antagonistic spirit.

“A dream for short-attention-span punks; imagine an elastic gymnast doing a jittery floor routine to the Suburban Lawns. These wirey, zig-zag punks from Chicago make good on their band name and will bring happiness to old schoolers who love Y Pants and new schoolers into the NWI scene á la the most excellent Coneheads. Spread Joy’s absurdly weird and wonderful angles make them the Picasso of the Midwest (minus the macho BS). Creation and destruction in under a minute? Yes please” – Maximum RNR