Pugilistic Pop

GRIN's debut album, "Pugilistic Pop," goes against the grain in terms of being radically anti-populist and brazenly intellectual. The album comprises short-fused, pugnacious manifestos and slow-burning, "pretentious" neo-epics. While the band—or rather, a conceptual collective—draws upon such genres of yore as trip hop, new wave or prog, their approach is neither vintage nor sentimental. Free from nostalgia, "Pugilistic Pop" cynically utilizes dead genres and AI tools to synthesize new political music for a new era. Politically, GRIN proposes heretical neo-Marxism for those who are bored stiff by deteriorating capitalism and its senile pop culture.