Pet Peeves, Off Contact, Model Living

Pet Peeves is an experimental no-wave band from Chicago with a revolving lineup of members from Chicago's improvised music scene. Featuring saxophone, surrealism, and slapstick humor. Releasing their second album November 15 on Orb Tapes.

Off Contact is a "jack of all trades" sonic assembly drawing influence from anywhere and everywhere. Holding a tight-steady rhythm, pooling into a cosmic wave of suspense; every song upholds multiple layers of perspective.

Here's what they're saying:

"perfect balance of post-punk and post hardcore ... sounds like it could easily be from a Wire recording, combined with the strong structures of Fugazi. Elements of shoegaze and jazz filter through occasionally, allowing for shifts in tempo and weight" - Seth McBurney (Maximum Rock and Roll)

"Call it shoegaze, post-punk, art rock and all would be relevant but what Off Contact does well is blend all these influences and labeled sounds into a big pre roll for you to puff on and enter the world of dreamscapes, fluffy angels floating on clouds, with flashing lights sending electric pulses in Grand Mal fashion" - Christopher D (Scene Point Blank)

"Post Punk you can trip out to" - Aaron Rhodes (Shuttlecock Magazine)

Model Living are a Chicago-based post-punk quartet formed in spring 2023. Their angular songwriting & urgent-yet-poetic lyricism seek to capture life in Your City (USA) & the ever-encroaching doom surrounding them. Guitarist Jay Martinez, drummer Nico Ciani, & bassist Matt Ciani create a hazy backdrop of repetition & tension for vocalist Geoff Daniels’ frantic depictions of a city ravaged by displacement, restaurant groups, & Exponential Growth.

Model Living formed as an opportunity for Daniels, also of art rock project Upstairs, & the Cianis, joining from Chicago dance-punk outfit Arthhur & synth-doom dirgers Flesh of the Stars, to collaborate, having worked out of the same rehearsal space for years & finding similar interests in post-punk luminaries The Fall, Priests, & Protomartyr. Building on the rhythm section’s unyielding, ripples-in-your-water-glass intensity, Martinez brings a nervy sharpness & dissonance in his guitar playing, conjuring squalls of feedback & sharp stabs of melody in equal measure. Together, Model Living craft propulsive rock songs with a strong point of view.