Standards - Fruit Island CD vinyl the body as a sacrifice

the body as a sacrifice

A thirty-minute trip for the post-Internet consumer

Vocals alternate between prominent gang-sung wails and buried-in-the-mix screams

while songs like “Dawn” revel in arpeggiating woodwinds and mallets

Elephant Gym employs their own unique technical candor

Standards - Fruit Island CD vinyl the body as a sacrificeLed 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,