Speedy Ortiz - Major Arcana (10th Anniversary Edition)

Released July 9, 2013, Major Arcana is filled with wedding chapel exorcisms, oiled- down abractants and criminally twisted puny lible villains — this is Dupuis' haunted lexicon as she scales the toxic Aggro Crag of a breakup. And while Dupuis wrote these songs, the band's convulsing arrangements and diverse influences sprawled the squigglier edges of feedbacked fuzz to mete out mabers of the heart. Falcone — who, it's worth no2ng, has a knack for vocal harmony — swung as much as he smashed the drums. In easily 2poverable songs, Ferm's burly bass and percussive overdubs gave the unruly glee its momentum. Robidoux ripped skronky guitar solos and countered Dupuis' riffs with decora2ve splaber. Over a four-day marathon session at Sonelab in Easthampton, recording engineer Jus2n Pizzoferrato sparked the studio imagina2on of Speedy Or2z — not only leaning into griby tones but layer-caking dense dynamics that made these songs pop and pulverize.