8.5/10 RIYL: Boy Harsher, Drab Majesty, The Soft Moon, crying in a CVS parking lot at 2 AM.
Gone is the reverb-drenched romanticism of their earlier work (see: Cherry Stains , 2023). In its place is a stark, almost industrial clarity. The guitar is dialed to a brittle, clean tone that chimes like a call bell no one answers. The drum machine hits with the rhythm of a hospital ventilator—mechanical, necessary, and terrifyingly precise. love junkie new scan
For the “love junkies” who have been chasing the dragon of their ex’s text messages, “New Scan” is the mirror you didn’t want to look into. It refuses to be a breakup anthem. There is no “I’m better now” chorus. Instead, it offers something rarer: The guitar is dialed to a brittle, clean
The title isn't a metaphor for a fresh perspective. It’s clinical. “New Scan” opens with the low hum of hospital machinery—a flatlining EKG tone that stutters back to life over a distorted 808 kick. Frontwoman L.J. (whose identity remains a tightly guarded secret) doesn’t sing so much as she delivers a tox screen report: It refuses to be a breakup anthem
Available now on all digital platforms. The limited 7” vinyl (pressed in translucent “urine sample yellow”) drops next Friday via Dead Format Records.
If you’ve ever mainlined a situationship straight into your aorta, you already know the name . The anonymous, cult-favorite project has built a following on the kind of visceral, synth-scarred post-punk that makes you feel like you’re spiraling in slow motion. Today, they drop their latest transmission: the “New Scan” single—and it’s a brutal, beautiful flatline.
