Lifer

These guys are either putting the balls back in 'ballistic' or taking them out. Either way, they're playing with balls, and it sounds fan-dam-tas-manian. Rock.

On Dope Body’s follow-up to 2012’s Natural History, the Baltimore noise rock band refresh a subversive approach to racket-making. Drive Like Jehu, Girls Against Boys, Brainiac, Chavez, U.S. Maple: This is Dope Body’s deliciously warped version of '90s pop history.

Baltimore-based quartet Dope Body eventually took their brooding, muscular blasts of noise rock from scuzzy basement shows to the world at large, slowly gaining international renown for their messy riffs, barely hanging together rhythms, and aggressive live shows.

Dope Body’s Lifer wears the fug of the band’s rehearsal room – the Baltimore four-piece barely left it while thrashing this record into shape. They took a similar approach to 2012’s Natural History, but where that album revelled in a tightly hewn tautness, Lifer is more interested in dynamics

Dope Body - Lifer review: A ferocious record that deftly coalesces noise rock with early grunge and psychedelic flourishes.