Track Premiere: Thought Leaders – ‘In Wastelands’
Things change. We’ve all become painfully aware of that in recent times, and Thought Leaders are a band thoroughly borne of change. The Bay Area-based modern, aggressive post-punk quartet dishes out addictive, saturated songs in the vein of Killing Joke, Bauhaus and Gang of Four. The band’s newest LP, In Wastelands, is out July 9 through King Of Sticks. New Noise are proud to premiere “Jane Doe’s Estate” below: In Wastelands by Thought Leaders The band’s sound is an interesting pivot for its members—coming from backgrounds in heavy prog acts The Mass (Crucial Blast Records) and Totimoshi, psychedelic Brit-pop Dora Flood and wiry post-rockers Lower Forty-Eight—some of whom have also switched instruments in this new configuration. The band had just formed in early 2019, issuing its debut 4-s...
