Vancouver’s NÜ SENSAE released an excellent sophomore album, SUNDOWNING, on SUICIDE SQUEEZE a few months ago, and I still can’t stop listening to it. This band has been receiving a lot of attention lately, and rightfully so. For me NÜ SENSAE are like a double time machine, they take me to that moment in my childhood when I stopped listening to the BEACH BOYS 24/7 and started getting into heavier music, and they also bring me back to that point in life when listening to someone scream their lungs raw was new and exciting. Combining speedy riffs, faster than fast drums, sludgy droning bass lines, and sometimes melodic vocals, the vibe and energy of their music is totally refreshing. They break every mold I can think of on this new album, destroying every idea you may have previously had about punk. A little bit dangerous, a little bit strange, bizarrely mysterious, and even pretty at times, NÜ SENSAE nails it.