Altered Zones

The gloriously consistent Mannequin Records pumps out another impeccably tailored jam of a record in the form of The Present Moment‘s Loyal to a Fault LP.

Clothed in the vintage threads of minimal synth, "A New Day" takes in hook-laden Reagan-era-nuclear-hysteria-pop to form a bubbling, willful dissonance between a world of mutually assured annihilation and a chrome-plated future ushered in on neon and glass. So bright, so bleak, and so clean. There’s rarely any way to sing about love here without it feeling like the end of world. Of course, this is a world where Genesis became a Malcolm McLaren to the embers of punk and shaped them into a fifth column of synth-wave disillusionists… maybe. --20 Jazz Funk Greats

MP3: The Present Moment: "A New Day"

The Loyal to a Fault LP is out on Mannequin on September 26 in collaboration with Desire Records