I spent a couple of days last week cranking through a bunch of rips and edits - mostly recent acquisitions with a few shelf stragglers mixed in for good measure. I checked my body of work as I started to schedule posts for upcoming trips to the Valley and The Island and realized that FOTE are gonna pretty hardcore deficient for the rest of the month. So as you read these words know that you'll have your ears properly blown out in September....and know that the time between now and then will be filled with some different joys. Live comedy, for example. Today, however, that means a sprawling and gorgeous indie/post-hardcore/college-alt/shoegaze offering from Jakarta' s VAGUE. "Inadequate" is the fukkn song here, but please don't stop listening just because it's the second cut because it's all beautiful and earnest. 2014's Footsteps was their first fill length (tracks from the 23/Nothing EP appear here as well) and they spent the rest of the decade cranking out songs drenched in layers of guitars and generous Rev Summer undertones. It's just...really good. You can always thrash later.
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