“Nothing changes on New Years Day--now or ever.”
Confrontation and darkness fuel the alternative underground: I Ya Toyah's FEELINGS is a hard-edged industrial statement born from frustration and emotional overload, exposing a culture of performative outrage and quiet conformity with unapologetic force. Montreal's The City Gates' Chimera unfolds like a nocturnal landscape of brooding post-punk rhythms and shimmering shoegaze walls of sound — "an album you can't escape from." Coma Beach's A Madman's Dream/Mind Descending fuses punk's feral bite with post-punk cold precision in their Beckett-infused triptych, while Lenny and the D crash the party with fast-paced indie rock, wall-of-sound harmonies, and working-class wit on their self-titled debut.