Standards - Fruit Island Cassette Color:White On their aptly titled third

On their aptly titled third album

bending as it does to its unique contours of consonance and dissonance

It was written and recorded in a home studio in Woodstock

and "Peter" reflects on the life of a feral child in Germany who was eventually adopted by the King of England

hazy vocals lend a heart-on-sleeve sentimentality to the resounding walls of fuzz

Standards - Fruit Island Cassette Color:White On their aptly titled thirdLed by the exuberant melodies of cross tapping guitarist Marcos Mena, the LA duo standards make meticulous instrumental math rock whose effervescent riffs teem with sunny enthusiasm. On the band's debut full length, Fruit Island, standards deftly retool math rock's unforgiving, challenging tendencies into a style that is both danceable and compositionally profound. Drummer Forrest Rice's boisterous chops complement Mena's unpredictable melodies,