The Sharpest and their album “Tophet Casm”

The Sharpest make me pumped to be from New England. With the intricacies of Math Rock but the aggression of punk and noise, The Sharpest seem to have found a perfect recipe for something new. “Tophet Chasm” is an example of how much awesome music gets lost in the masses.  Switching between grooves and syncopation makes it hard to dance to (unless you just freak out like me), but definitely not hard to listen to. They grab your ear with rhythmic play between the drum-set and guitar. Everytime you’re about to zone out, they smack you with something new. The vocals have a really unique sound too, drenched in distortion, reverb, and chorus but less pretty than Shoegaze vocals.  Check out their album, here. – Paul Jordan Talbot