Portland's Lithics sit in a lineage of artists who treat rhythm as architecture, building songs that feel simultaneously locked-in and destabilized. *Mating Surfaces* arrived at a moment when Kill Rock Stars, the label that helped define Northwest indie through the riot grrrl era, was championing a new wave of tightly coiled, post-punk-adjacent bands, and Lithics fit that catalog with an unnerving precision. Mating Surfaces is the second full length from Portland, Oregon's Lithics. Twelve tightly wound fragments of brittle abstract twin guitar, impellent rhythm, and absurd, imagistic lyricism. "A stern danceable sound that summons cut up snapshots of Su Tissue and Mark E Smith, an imagined landscape where Captain Beefheart hits that 99 Records Too Many Creeps beat." -Layla Gibbon (Maximum Rocknroll, Skinned Teen). Tracklist 1. Excuse Generator 2. Still Forms 3. When Will I Die 4. Specs 5. Boyce 6. Glass Of Water 7. Be Nice Alone 8. Flat Rock 9. Edible Door 10. Home 11. Cheryl 12. Dancing Guy UPC: 759656064620Label: Kill Rock StarsRelease Date: 5.25.18Format: CD
