Standards - Fruit Island Cassette Color:White and the like — songwriter

and the like — songwriter Joseph Stevens weaves personal stories into the wider fabric of the natural world

Recorded with Connor Hanwick (The Drums

but written over the course of two painstaking years

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Standards - Fruit Island Cassette Color:White and the like — songwriterLed by the exuberant melodies of cross tapping guitarist Marcos Mena, the LA duo standards make meticulous instrumental math rock whose effervescent riffs teem with sunny enthusiasm. On the band's debut full length, Fruit Island, standards deftly retool math rock's unforgiving, challenging tendencies into a style that is both danceable and compositionally profound. Drummer Forrest Rice's boisterous chops complement Mena's unpredictable melodies,