Favorite Song From the Past Year:

Jake Duzsik of HEALTH: Daniel Francis Doyle: "Head Up"

The Doyle is a dude from Austin who loops insanely fucked up, angular guitar riffs that still have a sort of Minutemen-esque bounce to them. Then he plays drums and sings/screams into a headset mic, cueing the loops with his foot. It fucking destroys. This song is from his Who Are Your Customers EP, and it is nothing short of being one of the most brutal break up songs ever. Pure noise and screaming "come back" till you need a voice box sells me way more than some wistful acoustic guitar bullshit. I think this the most openly emotionally moving noise song I have ever heard.

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