Calculatedly combative, Shakusky. just released their new album Lancaster Market. The spoken word vocals from Steven Arcieri are bleak at times, enlightened at others, and even sometimes hopeful, but always busy with vivid imagery and absurd leaps of logic. The Guitarists, Mark Hiller and Eli Albanese, have an interesting collaborative style. Instead of Lead and rhythm, they are “Left” and “Right” which results in a dense heavy sound when they double, and polyphonic intricate textures when they are picking and tapping in each ear. A really great emo-math sound, their album only came out this month, so check it out here. – Paul Jordan Talbot