a disaster at the dinner table by diningroomsuicide

Deep in the shadows cast by lo-fi crunch, accessible, catchy indie rock songs morph into something much more sinister, something more emblematic of severe depression than of winter melancholia. On the new record a disaster at the dinner table by diningroomsuicide, the infusion of throat-shattering skramz vocals launches these Strokes-esque garage rock tunes from their original contexts, adding a level of aggression that the 2000s post punk revival always shied away from. To further dismantle their impressively catchy pop songwriting from the other end, diningroomsuicide uses the same fuzzy production style that we see on albums like Come In by Weatherday, a technique that glues each instrument together so tightly as to make dissecting these songs into their components significantly more difficult. The resulting record sends us some fascinating mixed signals, earnestly approaching us with vocals that put everything on the table all while shyly hiding behind a protective shield of distortion. Diningroomsuicide lives on the brink of oversharing, desperately entertaining the audience to distract from the darkness that lies within, a futile effort that only pushes a disaster at the dinner table further into the depths of the human experience.