Bleep

After a decade of friendship, and finally writing music in the same room together, Still House Plants are completely locked in on their third album If I don’t make it, I love u. It’s as if they’re cerebrally connected, never faltering through accelerating stop start rhythms and decelerating molten, elastic tempos. David Kennedy’s masterfully restrained drumming, Finlay Clark’s resonating, gauzy guitars, and Jess Hickie-Kallenbach’s captivatingly raw, husky vocals burn with searing honesty, authenticity, and irreverence. Dextrous, elegant guitar work ushers in wild strums locked in place by honed drum work almost completely free of fills, as lyrics are cycled through with intense expression and distortion rends the tracks in two, yielding more so much after each repeated listen. The term 'modern classic' gets thrown around often but would not be out of place used to describe this staggering achievement.