Photo via Don Giovanni Records/Priests.

It takes approximately 13 seconds for Priests to announce themselves on “Right Wing,” the first track from their forthcoming EP Bodies and Control and Money and Power. “Everything, everything / is so right wing,” singer Katie Alice Greer observes in a kind of inquisitively lackadaisical moan as the fuzzed-out rhythm section—comprised of guitarist G.L. Jaguar, bassist Taylor Mulitz, and drummer Daniele Daniele—swells and swells. It’s all building up to a frenetic burst of rock and rhetoric that simultaneously forces you to lose control and pay close attention to what Greer is screaming about.

Since the band released their first tape, 2012’s Tape I, they’ve quickly become one of D.C.’s most exciting groups to watch. They’ve grown from tearing the walls down at various local punk houses to tearing the walls down of various local venues, proving to be a difficult act to follow for whatever band is burdened with that task.

So it’s not surprising when New Jersey label Don Giovanni Records decided they wanted to sign the band. The label, which boasts popular acts like Waxahatchee, Screaming Females, and Tenement, is putting out the band’s debut LP as a split with Priests’ own Sister Polygon Records on June 3.

“I’m not trying to be / anything / I’m not trying to say / anything” Greer sings in the chorus. It’s that kind of nihilistic anarchy that’s made Priests one of D.C.’s most exciting band in years.