Three years ago, Greg Puciato hoisted himself above his Black Queen bandmates and dangled from the second-floor balcony of Chicago’s Subterranean club. He saw 450 flashing faces under strobe lights below, and jumped straight into nothing. “I don’t really understand what was three years ago, and what was six months ago,” he says today. “Time feels really weird. It all feels like a big smear.” One week after the Chicago leap of faith, the world was suddenly mute with COVID caution and cancellations, but for Greg, who has spent more than half his adult life on tour, this forced stasis was a peculiar kind of blessing. In spring 2019, Greg was touring with The Black Queen, for second album Infinite Games. One year later, he was finalising the second Killer Be Killed album, ...