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This New Orleans quartet reinvigorates synth punk by animating a set of sophisticated, danceable songs of radical queer politics with confrontational vocals and elemental electronics. “(Herman’s) House” is a soulful, powerful solidarity call with a distorted house beat. Further in that direction is “Midnight Legend,” which plays like a lost disco classic. “Kurdish Radio” and “Cherry Blue Intention” bring the noise expected from synth punk, and Endure is an excellent representation of the genre.

Joshua Levine

New Orleans firestarters have a great take on Le Tigre and techno Public Image Ltd. and Chicago house and LCD Soundsystem—they’re all the same thing! There’s a real sense of beautiful mayhem here, a little like The B-52s gone political and aggro, or simple decades of musical and political resistance coalescing in one spot and getting lit on fire (accidentally). Singer Alli Logout is a natural and in some version of the near future, one of these songs could be a hit? If there are hits now.

Sasha Frere-Jones