Women - Public Strain

I constantly feel like I’m staring at an unrecognizable and clawed-at photo. It looks familiar. Like a friend or a place that I know well yet can’t firmly identify. I continue to pull the photo closer and begin to enjoy the imperfections (faded color, ripped edges and wrinkled integrity) and no longer feel or desire any relation to the subject. By no means is this record a grower, it simply sets a tone that is so unexpected and beautifully detuned. It also does a hell of a job of putting your mind in a dark place.

Women’s sophomore album expands upon their Velvet Underground-inspired pop by deconstructing it one brittle pluck at a time. Opener “Can’t You See” drones with controlled feedback, strings and vocals that are so distant and uncaring. There’s a triumphant joy within the lack of clarity, but there’s also no sign that Women want to be held close or understood either, and that makes complete sense with what comes next. “Heat Distraction” is full of wrecked guitar picking that sounds lost yet strategically placed in every repetition within its oddly shaped time signature. It’s the sound of a group reshaping post-punk into their own mangled vision of experimental pop. “Narrow with the Hall” takes a more direct approach. It follows a linear and distorted guitar note then erupts with a wash of noise that rivals a thousand fuzzy televisions losing their signals. If you feel disoriented then the album is doing its job.

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