* PREORDER * SELF IMPROVEMENT - Syndrome LP

* PREORDER * expected to arrive early July

Highly recommended.

"Perhaps in the contemporary simulacra wherein copies are all copies of other copies, the sense of the fraught sophomore effort is accentuated even more so. In a world of endless repetitions and reproductions the question becomes what can or will be created next? As if on cue, Self Improvement returns with a response to this question on their second LP Syndrome —10 tracks packed with danceable bass lines, skittish RnB infused post-punk drums, excitable angular guitar riffs, and urgent political lyrics. As a collaborative pastiche, as an embrace and rejection of genre and history, this record is both very much of its time and beyond such concepts as timeliness.

On Syndrome, Self Improvement dances upon a pleasing tightrope between influences and their own distinctive identity, easily traversing the space between modern takes on Wire or No-Wave-y dissonance a la Teenage Jesus and the Jerks and invoking the radical sensibilities (both musically and otherwise) of Crass or X-Ray Spex along the way. A document of collective action, of collaboration in production, performance, and conception, Syndrome stands out from the ready-made and formulaic music that is the soundtrack to our current cultural decline. As a result, Self Improvement have made a record that is vital in sound and concept and impossible to ignore." - Ben Michaelis