Heathen Disco Music Reviews #0130 (September 27, 2025)

Hey gang — had some issues submitting this in the evening, so you’re getting it today. Hope that’s alright. Been a busy week over here, dark nights of the soul leavened by the catharsis of seeing Silkworm play after 20 years, picking up the strands left when Joel Phelps exited the band in some kind of incredible alchemy that I hope the rest of the country gets to experience. I’ll go long on that later, maybe.

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ADDED DIMENSIONS Jane from Preoccupied America LP (Domestic Departure)

Brilliant second full-length from this Richmond, VA-based project of Sarah Everton (late of Reading/Bleeding Rainbow, and a few Philly bands like Blowdryer and Telepathic), serving as both an excellent poppy post-punk record, chopping through a steady beat with driven rhythm guitar and bass, and a koan of stress and anxiety that extends from one end to the other: what we should care about versus what we are forced to, our drive to work, how hard life becomes while trapped in the habitrail of self-sufficiency, what we give up in order to have something else, the yips that fill our heads when we make mistakes. It’s relentless, like the thoughts themselves, every one of these songs coming right for your temples no matter how sweetly melodic it gets. No ballads, no slow down, no “fast one” – Everton just swings away, building this conceptual effigy of internal monologue, stress and fear, used perhaps as a coping strategy for the rest of us to relate for apologizing too much or needing to justify why our minds veer to the worst places. If nothing else, this record proves that you’re not alone, which needs to be reinforced when one gets in this mousetrap frame of mind.

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