MODERN CYNICS - Auditory Postcards (CASS) Recess Records Anachronous is their latest symphony

Anachronous is their latest symphony

OF FUCKING COURSE that’s a good thing)

Its melodramatic

“I’ve had the time of my life — and I’ve never felt this way before

re-configuring rather than regurgitating influences and crafting songs which will lodge themselves firmly into the head of any listener

MODERN CYNICS - Auditory Postcards (CASS) Recess Records Anachronous is their latest symphonyYour first problem was demanding some sort of rationale behind Modern Cynics. Thats pre pandemic thinking. The core conceit's easy enough: tight little punk songs that (with a single exception) stick to less than a dozen unique words. Under that thumb, we find Matty Grace, twisting, bending over backwards, stripped of the lyrical toolkit that powers her folk punk ventures. Why though? Why suffer such an arbitrary constraint? Tedium. Boredom. Lockdown.