Lawn - "Night Life"
Photo by Victoria Conway We tend to bring you a lot of post-punk here at If It's Too Loud..., and lately it's been more of a modern sounding post-punk. It will be post-punk infused with pop, or shoegaze, or any other genre. Chicago's Lawn are bringing us just straightforward, pure, old school post-punk on their latest single, "Night Life." If this was any kind of hybrid sound it would be DEVO meets Gang Green, which is two separate post-punk sounds. It's the kind of song that has a sense of fun and celebration, but also a bit of a darker sonic edge to it. Rui DeMagalhaes says of the band's new single: "I was at a bar in DC shortly before the pandemic started when I met this washed up dude who said he had been a live tech for Todd Rundgren, A few drinks in, he went on a tirade against what he perceived as 'weak manners' among millennials and Gen Z musicians, saying that we’ve gotten lazy and soft. He offered to show me around his favorite dive...