The pandemic may have scuppered most of My Chemical Romance’s long-awaited reunion tour plans last year, but we can at least take solace in the fact that guitarist Frank Iero is releasing new music with his current band, The Future Violence. Considered a counterpart to Barriers, 2019’s stunning album with The Future Violents, this EP boasts three new bangers, as well as a cover of R.E.M.’s Losing My Religion. The altering of their moniker for this EP has seen the quintet – Frank, Evan Nestor (guitars), Matt Armstrong (bass), Kayleigh Goldsworthy (piano, organ, violin) and Thursday drummer Tucker Rule – possibly sounding a little more passive than on its predecessor. But the urgency and intensity that defined that record, the first music Frank wrote after the near...
