For too long it felt like post-hardcore was all played out. As greats like Glassjaw and Thrice moved into the nostalgia-tinged later periods of their careers, and radicals like letlive. hung up their battered six-strings in the face of shortening modern attention spans, there simply didn’t seem to be anything left to say. Then Static Dress showed up. A virtually unheralded force, hoisted out of the Leeds underground by visionary bandleader Olli Appleyard, they transported listeners back to the genre’s stripped-back DIY roots while engulfing them in a flood of fresh creativity. Rouge Carpet Disaster delivers on every ounce of the collective’s unruly promise – and then some. Opening with a roar before subsiding into a thrilling ebb-and-flow of melody, first track fle...