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style="text-align:left;"> Boston’s Main Era have steadily chiseled out their sound across a few short years, developed in no small part by the freewheeling, kaleidoscopic sound of their now-refined live shows • the band, comprised of Garrett Greaves, Jack Halberian, Maeve Malloy, & Willie Swift, aren’t content sticking within genre constrictions from track to track, or even within the same song on stage - instruments are swapped, punk-ish rave-ups are followed by ambient sprawls, found-sound samples are looped around slinking slowcore punctuated by shoegaze guitar heroics • nothing much is obvious during one of their live sets, but this much is: the sights & sounds of a band exuding a gleeful sense of chaotic camaraderie Thankfully, this feeling of open-world adventure translates well in a studio setting & is all over ‘the bank, a farmer’ - a primal rhythm section underscores an angular post-punk break, lyrical references to existentialist literature are bandied about by shuddering arpeggios, volcanic stabs of fuzz give way to experimental rattle & dread • although it isn’t clear where Main Era might go from here, old fans & new listeners alike can rest easy knowing it’s a sonic patchwork well worth following - Candlepin Records