When the world is at its most chaotic and dire, a hero rises, rallying behind a message that resonates for the time and unites people with a clarity of purpose. Here, that hero is Weed Martyr, and that message is “Guillotine Billionaires.” The 2021 danceably doomy blast from the Bright Light Social Hour’s alter ego project rakes out the detritus of the pandemic in a psychedelic jamming haze. Jane Leo, the synth and guitar combination of Jane Ellen Bryant and Daniel Leopold, sets up intoxicatingly dark, rippling new wave pulses from this year’s Big Life EP. Easy Compadre! kicks off.
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— Doug Freeman
