New Game+ [LP]

Vinyl LP pressing. 2023 release. New Game+ - the sophomore LP from Columbus, Ohio's Palette Knife - encompasses a vast array of rock/emo tunes that are reminiscent of scene stalwarts Into It. Over It, Tiny Moving Parts or a more intricately guitar based Modern Baseball. The theme of New Game+ interweaves classic 16-bit tropes of "Death Screen" and "Pause Screen" seamlessly into the LP sequencing. The slow-building, fast climaxing ode to lockdown single "Jelly Boi" is spacious as it crescendos into a fast-paced guitar attack outro. On Damn Son, Dim Sum, the band gets right to it for two and a half minutes and churns out a riff-y pop-punk classic. Closer "... And That's A Rock Fact.", does what closers do and puts an empathic foot down on an entire piece of work that encapsulates what a rising rock/emo band is capable of.