Photo by Michael Andrade

D.C.’s Jail Solidarity is out for sonic blood on new track “Bluffdale” from their upcoming EP Pretty Good Privacy. A bassline so deep it seems electronic introduces the five-minute long jaunt into dissonance. The intro bursts open into a jolting wall of sounds, from frustrated vocals to slow, loping guitar slides and haunting harmonies.

The musical dirge is framed with lyrical warnings against surveillance, just one aspect of the privacy theme expected throughout the EP. Bluffdale, Utah, the home of the NSA’s data center, suddenly seems quite opposite from the sunny, patriotic protectorate advertised on their website.

What’s so noteworthy about this three-piece isn’t just their message, but their choice to present it in droning, post-hardcore waves, rather than through the electric energy of most political punk bands. Both are abrasive, but Jail Solidarity’s foreboding approach is all the more powerful.

Pretty Good Privacy will be released on October 29th via Accidental Guest Recordings. You can pre-order the EP here. Jail Solidarity will also play a cassette release show with Roomrunner and Maloso on October 29th at the Black Cat Backstage.