The new album by Chief Monkey is a bold, genre-blurring collision of texture, emotion, and raw energy. Pulsing koto-like percussive blips and airy synths form a restless foundation as lo-fi bass and abrupt, unpredictable cuts give way to intricate finger-picked Midwest emo guitar lines.

Machine-gun drums drive a reimagined early ’90s grunge, loud, and charged with Seattle-era angst while garage-band grit. Indie-rock melodies and sharp lyrical wit are chopped, recombined, and pushed into an evolving indietronica groove, layered with sound collage, plunderphonics, and anachronistic samples that make the record feel both nostalgic and strikingly new.