Recalculating

Recalculating’s forthcoming album, Do You Like To Laugh?, is a burning missive from the depths of the pandemic. Frothing over with jagged guitars, pent-up emotionality, and intriguing cultural and literature references, the record confronts vulnerability, absurdity, isolation, and big feelings with the trio’s trademark abstractly insightful poetics.

The exhilarating 12-song collection of wiry post-punk and scruffy indie rock was engineered and mixed by the late alt-rock legend Steve Albini (Pixies, Nirvana, the Breeders) at his legendary Chicago studio Electrical Audio on two-inch tape. Do You Like To Laugh? will be preceded by the explosive single Candide Says.

Two-thirds of the New York City-based indie rock trio are brothers, and the other third stays late for dinner when possible. The three-piece group operates like any healthy-functioning family with all members contributing. Recalculating has managed that rare feat of having three distinct writers while maintaining a cohesive sensibility.