Police State is an industrial project known for their immersive, dizzying live performances and impeccable presentation. They combine elements of metal, jazz, classical, noise, sludge, and whatever-else-you-can-name in their dreary, drawn-out passages. For fans of noise, misery, fury, Swans, The Birthday Party, and many others, Police State represent gruesome, pungent, and poetic atrophy made sonic in their manifestation. They’ve played alongside acts such as flyingfish, journal, White Boy Scream, Big Brown Cow, and many others. Their recent live record, Slow Violence, and a Silent Rise, is an exceptional display of their pounding post-rock expanses, dense and sweeping compositions, and unadulterated ambition that only further assures them an auspicious and fascinating future.
Washed were formed under the twilight of Arizona night skies where a trio of youth, staring into the celestial beyond our imagination, found in that void a vision of the future. Of impossible defeat and impossible resilience. That’s the sound of Washed and their already legendary album “Teaching A Dog To Burn.” Youth who see a future they don’t fully understand but know mustn’t go unchallenged. Washed is a cry of fury with furtive whispers over the roar of Kaden Malone and Foster Hilding’s shrieking urgent guitars, their collective cries among profound spoken word co-exist with bombastic drumming from Kiva Rasband. Washed leave you half-deaf and blistered by their beautiful cacophony of sound.
