Scary Stories You Tell In The Dark

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Donovan Wolfington's 2014 set <i>Scary Stories You Tell in the Dark</i>—the follow-up to their 2013 full-length debut album, <i>Stop Breathing</i>—is a more focused look at the strengths of the New Orleans indie punks. The quartet have received comparisons to Weezer, but they're clearly more aggressive and less commercially oriented. Their balance of punk aggression and pop hooks favor punk, and as a result the songs are stronger and more densely packed than the average punk-pop band’s tunes. The wall of sound is dense on the opening track, “Sleeping,” and that intensity follows through on the Superchunk-like scream-along of “Quitting.” The EP’s longest track, the almost-three-minute “Alone,” offers a somber sweetness under a whirlwind of sound, with vocals that take a surprisingly sugary and mellow attack. The EP’s brevity makes every song count, and “Keef Ripper” and “Hey Alex” fill things out with a joyous enthusiasm that suggests the EP is the band’s ideal format.

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