Reader - Engrams DTG The album marks a welcome

The album marks a welcome return for a band that helped define the Midwestern post-hardcore scene

and a masterful one at that

the duo of Jason Blackmore (Molly McGuire) and Quintero (Spotlights) funnel decades of heavy experience into a raw

melodic grit

and awe with deliberate recklessness

Reader - Engrams DTG The album marks a welcomeIn a time of facsimiles, replicas, and false tributes, along comes Reader a bombastic, fearlessly unusual rock quartet from Seattle, WA. Practically speaking, this means stunning and precise vocal harmonies over shattering angular guitars, unconventional time signatures, and a driving rhythm section. Less practically speaking, the bands debut record Engrams is a journey a dynamic and unpredictable experience that challenges the listener in all the