Miami’s Pariuh are following up their 2016 album Passed Lives’ Excessive Future with the Family Witchcraft Attack EP, which will be released on the Chicago-based label Moniker Records.
Equal parts angst and whimsy, “Who Am I Going to Talk to Everyday?” is the first single from the EP, and it brings the tight four-song cycle to a close that is as jolting as it began. The parting salvo embraces the channel-flipping-child aesthetic like a boa constrictor, leaving little room for air between the obsolete keyboards, “1950’s ‘Star Trek’ vibraphone”, mechanized punk beat, and the maxed-out vocals of singer/drummer Chris Dougnac. Electric meta-youth of today, Pariuh revel in melting down yesterday’s plastic future.