A post-punk album grappling with the advancement of technology is about as common as an ad on your Instagram feed. A man bemoaning content nausea in a deadpan over animated guitars may be a bit played out at this point. But it’s 2026 and things are weirder than ever. You can be an influencer for smashing your jawbone with a hammer. You can livestream yourself being abused and humiliated until you die. Has the link between the expanding digital world and the desire for self-destruction ever been this clear before? This is something Chicago band Stuck explore on their new album Optimizer.
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