September 16, 2025

Preorder new LPs from Optic Sink, Why Bother?, Morwan, Citric Dummies

For whatever reason, perhaps to stave off boredom and or dementia, or perhaps to create an alternate reality where the world is not an absolute dumpster fire, we here at Feel It HQ have been particularly industrious over the past few months. We have four—yes FOUR—releases to announce this time around. Wowsers. Wosers, indeed.   Here we go: Memphis post-punk trio Optic Sink are back with their third album Lucky Number. Produced and recorded by Caufield Schnug of Sweeping Promises, OS deliver more new/no-wave tracks to tickle your intellect and move your hips. Stream the first single “Don’t Look Down” on your preferred platform and check out the video below. Lucky Number drops, spookily, on Halloween (10/31). Iowa punkers Why Bother? have issued another missive from the outer edges in the form of Case Studies. Strap in for a wild ride to the limits of consciousness, propelled by snarly guitar riffs and boom-bap percussion—get weird with the first single “Indoctrination” now and go full transcendental on October 3rd. Berlin via Kyiv post-punkers Morwan are back with another set of introspective tracks that explore the themes of loss and fear via a significantly more aggressive sound to match Alex Ashtui’s raw emotional honesty. Vse po Kolu, Znovu is a vital product of its time, an astute musical documentation of conditions that led to its creation. Stream the first single “Не чекай (Ne chekay)” now on your platform of choice and check out the full album on October 17th. Finally, last but certainly not least, our favorite dummies and your’s, Citric Dummies are back with another ripper from the great North. Split With Turnstile (big if true, bro) drops October 17th, catch them on their super punk/HxC stadium tour in a town near you.   Phew!   Finally, Feel It will be crashing Gonner Fest yet again with an afterparty gig at the lovely Lamplighter Lounge featuring local luminaries Optic Sink, 34 Trolley (PA) and Ohio heavy weights Lung and Beef. Stay up way past your bedtime and come say hi!   Optic Sink - Lucky Number (band photo: Nate Packard) Bandcamp / Instagram "Don't Look Down" premiere at Treble Zine Preorder LP direct from Feel It  (100 Fire Orange / 400 Black) Lucky Number, the third album from Memphis trio Optic Sink, finds the band both refining and expanding their hypnotic mix of post-punk and dance music, resulting in a sharp and moving exploration of surfaces, shadows, and self-delusion. Natalie Hoffmann (NOTS) has come into her full power as a lyricist. Her work on earlier records (see “Modelesque” and “Glass Blocks”) shows her talent for exploring the hidden shallows of modern life, but here the funhouse mirrors are balanced by painful longing and drops of truth that leak through the cracks. The music reflects this—under Bauermeister’s driving grooves and the songs’ tight arrangements lurk hidden complexities, thanks in part to Keith Cooper’s exceptional, angular work on guitar and bass. “Unreachable / untouchable space / glass tower / a fragile face / when you’re here / where do you go?” Hoffmann sings over the sinister, nocturnal funk of “Construction.” Few bands can match the hard beauty of Depeche Mode, New Order, and A Certain Ratio—Optic Sink manages to do more than that, adding their own sad, cutting wisdom. Produced and recorded by Caufield Schnug of Sweeping Promises, Lucky Number is out Fall 2025 on Feel It Records. -Dan Hornsby of True Green/author of Sucker and Via Negativa   Optic Sink - Don't Look Down [Video by Micky Thordarson / Low Budget Films]

Why Bother? - Case Studies Bandcamp "Indoctrination" premiere at Post-Trash Preorder LP direct from Feel It (300 Black) Punk rock prophets WHY BOTHER? have created a special album for you that is filled with mystery and answers. The new album contains songs of modern strangeness that at times may slip through the thin veil of reality that most desperately cling to. These tracks will reveal and share a dire warning for what is and what has yet to surface for humanity. By initiating the out of body experience (OBE- AYDA METHOD) some of the members of the band have been able to find an antidote to some of these problems. Will you find these clues weaved into the recordings? Maybe...But what if you are the problem. That would be like asking you to taste your own tongue. The only way to find out is to listen and become your own CASE STUDY. Morwan - Vse po Kolu, Znovu (band photo: Yaroslav Rashevskyi) Bandcamp / Instagram Не чекай premiere at Austin Town Hall Preorder LP direct from Feel It (300 Black) "Vse po Kolu, Znovu" (All in a circle, again) is the fourth studio album by Morwan, marking the culmination of years of creative exploration. The collection features eight tracks recorded between 2023 and 2024, except for the title track, "Vse po Kolu, Znovu", which was written back in 2020. The new album delivers a heavier, more aggressive sound, representing a noticeable departure from the band’s earlier works. Genre-wise, it drifts from post-punk to avangard rock and even shoegaze. Combined with deeper and more personal lyrics, this makes it Alex Ashtaui’s most emotional and honest work to date. "Vse po Kolu, Znovu" is a story about fears tearing you apart from within and conflicts that give you no peace. It’s about the endless cycle of existence, pulling you into the vortex of inevitable dread. It tells of the moment when control over yourself slips away, and you become a helpless observer, forced to watch your life crumble before your very eyes. It’s about the rejection of oneself, about the desperate desire to escape your own essence and return to the beginning, just to feel something real once again. Citric Dummies - Split With Turnstile (band photo: Ethan Duffy) Bandcamp / Instagram Preorder LP direct from Feel It (100 Transparent Orange / 400 Black) Citric Dummies are everything that makes modern rock n’ roll wonderful. Their energy leaps out of the speakers, their tempos will furrow the brow of any fist-pumping speed purist, and their irreverence dances quite artistically on the line between provocative and antagonistic without ever being juvenile or cruel. Indeed, the Minneapolis power trio flex their jester’s privilege on their new album Split With Turnstile with a tongue that has bored entirely through cheek, and spits just a little bit of blood at you.  More than anything, Citric Dummies represent a natural progression from bands like Reagan Youth with snappy, fast, and extremely tight drum parts that work the hell out of the closed hi-hat and fall around the speeds of bands like Generacion Suicida, Dark Thoughts, or even The Ergs! Riff-wise, the band has a lot more in common with Barely Legal-era the Hives, Dwarves, and bits of early Arctic Monkeys, while vocalist/bassist “David Lunch” shouts, bellows, and wails throughout Split With Turnstile; a plain departure from what was described as “pretty much doing a Danzig impersonation,” on their 2023 release Zen and the Arcade of Beating Your Ass. Citric Dummies, however, exude a love of absurdity that none of these bands possess. Their pseudonyms for the other 66% of the band on this album are drummer D.V. Tinner and guitarist David Cronutberger. Split With Turnstile by Citric Dummies is out on October 17th through Feel It Records. - Pierce Jordan Gonerfest afteparty - September 27