THE SUSSEX ARMS

Throwing off the shackles of existential dread with hypnotic beats, punk energy and swirling synths, screensaver take weighty themes about power, lies, corporate coercion and systemic failure and deliver them via their blend of maximalist post punk. 

With a dance heartbeat, a kraut-rock back bone and new wave glimmer, there’s a catharsis in their anxiety induced compositions that is both dark but danceable.

“You can hear the rocking yearning of peak Sleater-Kinney, the blunt thunk of early ’80s disco punk, coldwave’s synth-licked gloom (or the modern update of BELGRADO), and high-rolling Banshees goth rock. Often some of all of those are happening at once, which is in itself a niche of sorts, but a bigger factor in all this is that screensaverr are really adept songwriters” - Noel Gardner, Maximum Rock ‘n’ Roll.