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Population II: Gimmicks (2026)

May 19, 2026

Population II may have come to my attention via Jon Dwyer and Castleface Records (is that even still a thing? What happened?), but in the time since discovering 2020’s Á la Ô Terre, I’ve been steadily keeping track of how the group bend the sounds of psychedelia, krautrock, electronica, synthwave (ugh, I know), all the way up to modern composition, into something so singular. The roaring collage of guitars started to take a backseat with last year’s Maintenant Jamais,…
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