If you’ve never had music that bleeds, breathes, and screams DIY grace your ears, you’ve clearly never listened to Concord’s Nick Owen.

One of his latest releases, Art Park, embodies the punk ethos with its stripped back sound and aggression. Owen often relies on just a bass or guitar paired with sharp drum lines and his own raw vocals and stark lyricism to produce his tracks—uncluttered and highly effective.

Just because the EP integrates punk elements does not, however, mean that it’s one-dimensional. Tracks like “Third Space” sonically stirs unease with a series of unsettling notes, but it’s ethereally dreamy. And “11 – 3 – 17″ offers an intermission filled with 47 seconds of poetry, while “Self Defined” is so raw and unrestrained, it’s almost animalistic. (And if I offer anything valuable from this write-up, it’s to urge you to see this track performed live in its full glory.)

Standing out is six-minute track “Under the Shaker White Pine.” While it represents the straightforward tone and instrumentation of the EP, each component of the song layers complexly. It journeys through distinct, metamorphosing stages that vary in intensity, but unify effortlessly into an instant hit.

The beauty of Art Park, much like “Under the Shaker White Pine,” is that punk very clearly manifests itself in the foundations, yet the EP remains incredibly accessible. Art Park wreaks havoc, but tunefully—a sonic, controlled chaos that certainly demands (and deserves) attention.