NEWS 2020/09/01
Dishing out some stoner-punk you can really sink your teeth into, L.M.I. – a Bad Religion-inspired acronym for Lazy Middle-Class Intellectuals – are decade-long vets of the Lansdale, Pennsylvania, punk scene. The three-piece recently dropped their new album, Excess Subconscious, on June 26th via Handstand Records (US) and Maniyax Records (EU), and the nine-track effort is a frenetic, satisfying blend of punk, hardcore, post and stoner-rock accents, and screaming, lots and lots of screaming. As an enticing taste of Excess Subconscious, L.M.I. is offering the album’s penultimate track as a free download. The blistering “Tomorrow Midnight” is held down by the band’s stable musicality while the vocals scrape menacingly along the lower tunnels of the lead singer’s register. As well...