Candlepin Records scored a great band for its artist roster.

Main Era wowed us last year with the Dreamer EP, especially the pitch perfect “Clandestine Sadness” song. More than enough to get interest from a local label, which is now putting out the new EP The Bank, A Farmer on cassette.

Our highlighted track “Stranger” eschews some of the twee highlights of the previous EP in exchange for a bit moodier, artcore adventurism. Shades of early Sonic Youth; say, Daydream Nation-era stuff, where spare lyrics are used as brief pit stops and jumping off points for pinwheeling guitar passages rocketing towards the upper stratospheres.

Also, was this band postering Allston with promotional material with text copy written with the Cyrillic alphabet?

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