MOPE CITY - Within The Walls LP

"It’s only been just over two years between drinks (albums) for Mope City, but a lot has happened in that timespan. Within The Walls – the name of the group’s forthcoming record – reads ominously like a COVID-era lockdown piece, and that’s likely largely (though not entirely) what it is. One imagines that the shut-in lifestyle of lockdown suits Mope City’s plodding skin-and-bone aesthetic (all downcast strum and odd moments of stir-crazy bedlam) but the first glimpse of new material bears evidence of a more forceful approach. Lead single ‘Rocket Surgery’ oscillates between the band’s familiar hushed murmurings and blunt torrents of disorder. It’s as if the group initially attempted to communicate without upsetting the stillness they inhabit, but instead end up looking to fill it and override it completely." - Weirdo Wasteland