Róisín Isner (she/her) was seventeen when she found a burned CD wedged above a conduit on the ceiling at a Punk show at San Francisco’s Bottom of the Hill. A year later she met male-bassist and fellow teenager Ashley Clayton (he/him) at a birthday party. It would be a few more years before they put together that the demo she’d once found on a club ceiling was his. Flash forward to 2024 and they are the sole members of SF indie punk outfit Strange Men; Róisín plays drums, Ashley plays an 8-string guitar he made out of scavenged wood, and they both sing. Their latest single, All The Pretty Houses, will be released on the 1st November and proves that Strange Men can be pretty, to a point. The track opens with a shimmering guitar loop and Ashley taking a turn at lead vocals, with R...