PACKS makes the kind of garage pop rock that begs to be played for a basement of swaying bodies. The fact that they originally met at a house show is less surprising. Madeline Link leads Shane Hooper (drums), Noah O’Neil (bass), and Dexter Nash (lead guitar) down an introspective lo-fi rabbit hole, wandering through the beauty and strangeness of the everyday. “During the first lockdown I spent the entire month of April writing and recording songs,” Link says. “The anxiety of living with my parents again, grieving but not really knowing how, and the sheer ubiquity of time made it so that writing songs was the only way to not shut down entirely.”

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