Lamps - Under the Water Under the Ground

Vinyl LP pressing. 2012 release, the third album from the L.A. based Indie band. There are some catchy hooks here-some of the catchiest Lamps have written to date, and vastly improved by an industrial strength recording by Chris Woodhouse-but they compress that element of their sound into a dynamic that favors power and precision as it's most acute points, amplified/ distorted/ corroded to the point where it only knows how to hurt.