All That Density, All That Noise

Nephicide is Jogger’s 2011 record and it sounds like a band trying to fit more ideas into each song than any reasonable song can hold—and somehow making that excess feel intentional rather than undisciplined. The Oakland duo built their reputation on this kind of compressed, overloaded writing: tempo shifts stacked against each other, vocal harmonies folded into rhythmic chaos, structural left turns that arrive before you’ve processed the last one. It’s the kind of record that leaves you slightly disoriented after two minutes and quietly exhilarated after twenty.