Description:

Since emerging in 2015, Sextile have been a party-provoking force on the LA underground, capable of kicking up a riot with the raw-edged squall of a synth or the sharp-elbowed jerk of a guitar. Sextile are now ready to rage with a serotonin-boosting new album, a new group dynamic, faster BPMs, and an even wilder new direction. Recorded in Yucca Valley, Push bounces and bops at the fringes of hardcore dance music, with the hallmarks of drum & bass, gabber and trance illuminating the record like glowsticks at a 90s Fantazia rave.Contortion introduces the album with shadowy vocals from Keehnand a 00s-ready twist of dirty electro bass, setting the tone for the dance-punk rave-up that unfolds across 11 attention-grabbing tracks. Theres plenty of historic teen angst and biting social commentary written into the albums vivid tales and misadventures. Balancing storytelling with face-melting synths that turn the tune into an acid trance character study, No Fun is penned from the perspective of a teenager trying to flee their town.A punk spirit underscores the album.

The clues in the name with Crassy Mel, which partly serves as a high-energy dedication to 70s anarcho-punk legends Crass. The tracks headbanging heft, vocal yelping, and Prodigy-shaped breakbeats accentuate the albums overwhelming sense of fun. Plus, the dreamy ambient wash at the end of the song is the ultimate palate-cleanser. Push was inspired by the kind of pleasure-seeking music fans whose social calendar comprises both the punk show and the rave. Josh Wink, Iggy Pop, Goldie, and early XL Recording shave all been name checked as influences on Push, and the dancefloor remains a constant presence. Repping their place of origin, New York brings these musical touchstones off the page, guiding the album like an acid-soaked lodestar with its grinning nod to Higher State of Consciousness and a whirlygig of music-box synths. There are still nods and hellos to the caustic post-punk of Sextiles earlier work. Sextile havent relinquished their punk credentials, theyve just given them a smiley-faced revamp.

Tracks:

Contortion
No Fun
Crassy Mel
Lost Myself Again
Crash (feat. Izzy Glaudini)
New York
Basically Crazy
Modern Weekend
LA DJ
Plastic
Imposter