Romantic

Philadelphia’s Mannequin Pussy thrash swiftly from the playful to the chaotic. Their latest LP combines punk, shoegaze, death metal, and more, with the ferocious push-pull energy of a mosh pit.

When it comes to the trappings of emotional turmoil, perhaps no subject goes so woefully overlooked as the breakup call: those bittersweet, entrail-twisting expressions of love and hate exchanged at the height of amorous delirium. It could take the form of duets screamed by exes in heat, outside the bar, the frantic…