MODERN CYNICS - Auditory Postcards (CASS) Recess Records Chachi (Toys That Kill

Chachi (Toys That Kill

they’re real songs with movements and progressions

Think Twice

their desire to rock is just too infectious to ignore

The idea to get a book out of the experience was already in his head before the band loaded up the van

MODERN CYNICS - Auditory Postcards (CASS) Recess Records Chachi (Toys That KillYour first problem was demanding some sort of rationale behind Modern Cynics. Thats pre pandemic thinking. The core conceit's easy enough: tight little punk songs that (with a single exception) stick to less than a dozen unique words. Under that thumb, we find Matty Grace, twisting, bending over backwards, stripped of the lyrical toolkit that powers her folk punk ventures. Why though? Why suffer such an arbitrary constraint? Tedium. Boredom. Lockdown.