San Francisco’s PARDONER are back with their new album, Came Down Different (Bar/None Records). It’s their first label release since 2017’s Uncontrollable Salvation (Father/Daughter Records), which garnered them praise in Pitchfork and NPR, and made them a staple of live sets around the Bay. There’s been no shortage of excitement for the new record, with outlets like Rolling Stone, Paste, Under the Radar, Bandcamp, SF Weekly, and more weighing in on the quartets staying power. Singles “Bunny’s Taxi”, “Spike”, & “Donna Said” provide a preview of what’s turned out to be their poppiest collection yet, but for Pardoner, that still means plenty of frenetic drumming and crushing guitars, all wrapped up in the bands singu...
