New Game+ the sophomore full length from Columbus, Ohio’s Palette Knife encompasses a vast array of rock and emo tunes that are reminceint of scene stalwarts Into It. Over It, Tiny Moving Parts or a more intricately guitar based Modern Baseball. The theme of New Game+ oozes urgency and interweaves the classic 16-bit tropes of Death Screen and Pause Screen seamlessly into the album’s sequencing. The slow-building, fast climaxing ode to lockdown single Jelly Boi is spacious as it crescendos into a fast-paced guitar attack outro. On their new single, Damn Son, Dim Sum, the band gets right to it for two and a half minutes and churns out a riff-y pop-punk classic. Whilst the closing track …And That’s A Rock Fact., does what closers do and puts an empathic foot down on a...