Released in 2021, Projector thrives on tension. Guitars scrape and unravel, rhythms lurch sideways, and songs constantly feel on the verge of collapse without ever fully breaking apart. There’s a wiry nervous energy running through the whole record, like the sound of five musicians discovering just how far they can push a song before it catches fire.
Frontman Cameron Winter already sounds fully formed here too: part art-school poet, part unhinged preacher, delivering cryptic lines with a mix of swagger, desperation and deadpan cool. Around him, the band stitch together jagged post-punk, krautrock repetition, no-wave abrasion and flashes of groove-heavy indie rock into something that feels chaotic but strangely controlled.
You can hear shades of Talking Heads, Television, The Strokes and even early Radiohead lurking in the shadows, but Projector already carries the strange, shape-shifting identity that would later explode on 3D Country.
A debut packed with ambition, anxiety and flashes of brilliance. The sound of a great band arriving fully caffeinated and halfway feral.
TRACKS:
- Rain Dance
- Low Era
- Fantasies / Survival
- First World Warrior
- Disco
- Projector
- Exploding House
- Bottle
- Opportunity Is Knocking
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