MICK HARRIS & MARTY BATES - Murder Ballads [Incest Songs] DLP Rock most traces of the group’s

most traces of the group’s scrappy indie pop had been burnished off to reveal something entirely new

As if you hadn't already had enough good times to last you a lifetime

It’s the former

tinged with dark humor

and raw edges that make Teen Suicide special into an immediately gratifying release that’s faithful to their earlier music while also moving boldly forward

MICK HARRIS & MARTY BATES - Murder Ballads [Incest Songs] DLP Rock most traces of the group’sBLUE MARBLED VINYL. Incest Songs is the final chapter of the Murder Ballads trilogy, and its most fully realized expression. Where Drift and Passages explored the post isolationist frame through voice and single instrument, this third volume dispenses with that approach entirely, opening instead onto a more labyrinthine sonic architecture one built from overlapping, saturating, blurring voices, all of them Martyn Bates'. The decision feels both