BUSH TETRAS

The band's initial formation lasted only a few years, from 1979 to the early '80s. But they kept resurfacing, changing their sound, adapting their vision, and remaining completely unique and indispensable. In the late 2010s, the group—Pat Place, Cynthia Sley, and Dee Pop—reformed and released an EP titled "Take the Fall" in 2018. It was their first offering of new music in over a decade. A few years later, in 2021, they released a career-spanning box set titled "Rhythm and Paranoia." The New York Times called the box set an artifact that "proves across decades that the Bush Tetras continued to evolve in surprising but intuitive directions." And in Pitchfork's Best New Reissue, "Rhythm and Paranoia" revealed "how relevant [the Bush Tetras] remained each decade." The Bush Tetras are always like that: a band that demands your attention, that refuses to be defined by any genre descriptions or cheap recordings. Four decades later, they're as essential as ever, ready to make you think, dance, enter a mosh pit, and throw elbows into your combat boots, but only if you're not an idiot—or a creep.