Paranoyds - Carnage Bargain - Neon GreenLos Angeles punk quartet The Paranoyds channel revelry and revulsion into their debut album Carnage Bargain a raucous blend of garage rock grit, new wave swagger, horror film soundtrack campiness, and a myriad of other influences. The Paranoyds' beginnings can be traced back to a friendship forged between Staz Lindes and Laila Hashemi in their teens. With the additions of Lexi Funston and David Ruiz, the band found the personnel for their sonic

as well as the texts in Mandarin and English

which premiered on November 3

But an additional palette of sonic and gestural rawmaterial is now also decidedly "out-of-the-box"

The sweet three-part harmonies

All the vocal works on this recording offer

and it might have caused a loud noise to the neighborhood

trombonist and scholar George E

Philippa Mo (violin)

Freddie King and Rory Gallagher

uses the trademark "dark drums" of her previous work to invoke the sonic impression of a heartbeat

individual pieces for performance

a documentary about Lane by filmmaker Skizz Cyzyk