Standards - Fruit Island Cassette Color:White and Bill Callahan

and Bill Callahan

traditional drums

On their aptly titled third album

The EP marks the group’s first release in over a year

bending as it does to its unique contours of consonance and dissonance

Standards - Fruit Island Cassette Color:White and Bill CallahanLed by the exuberant melodies of cross tapping guitarist Marcos Mena, the LA duo standards make meticulous instrumental math rock whose effervescent riffs teem with sunny enthusiasm. On the band's debut full length, Fruit Island, standards deftly retool math rock's unforgiving, challenging tendencies into a style that is both danceable and compositionally profound. Drummer Forrest Rice's boisterous chops complement Mena's unpredictable melodies,