The Cleveland-born punks in Pleasure Leftists have cleaned up a bit for their debut full-length for Deranged Records.
A pair of shorter form releases presented a thunderclapping rendition
of post-punk that could’ve only come from a crew of former hardcore
kids, but The Woods of Heaven goes
full ’80s, using spiraling guitar lines and nervy drum clutter to
conjure an anxiety as overwhelming as the genre’s forebears.
Pleasure Leftists – The Woods of Heaven (2015)
The Cleveland-born punks in Pleasure Leftists have cleaned up a bit for their debut full-length for Deranged Records.
A pair of shorter form releases presented a thunderclapping rendition
of post-punk that could’ve only come from a crew of former hardcore
kids, but The Woods of Heaven goes
full ’80s, using spiraling guitar lines and nervy drum clutter to
conjure an anxiety as overwhelming as the genre’s forebears.
