ZOND - s/t LP Pop Punk dark gem and tracks like

dark gem and tracks like 'if we escape' are heroic

The likes of Carla Bozulich (Evangelista)

The Lowest is back

Seemingly negligible

is unexploded ordnance is landmines is cluster bombs

ZOND - s/t LP Pop Punk dark gem and tracks likeZond have obviously improved in leaps and bounds since their endless riff jam band days: there's 10 songs here, some as short as 2 1 2 minutes. They sound like songs, too: a beginning, something approaching a chorus and a verse, and an end. Recorded by Jack Farley and mastered by Casey Rice, the sound is still fairly lo tech in the sense that the drums and bass are a little too low in the mix, though the guitars leap from the speaker to awesome