Friends with fellow Maryland musicians Future Islands and Dan Deacon, inspired by Paper Rad and singing songs about Winona Ryder’s character on 90s cult classic Reality Bites, Ed Schrader’s Music Beat and their new album Jazz Mind isn’t your average punk rock release. Instead it features a track listing that barely breaches the 20-minute mark, occasionally riffs on macho hardcore punk culture and features No Age’s Randy Randall on ‘When I’m in a Car’. All this, delivered in 11 brief blasts of varying drums-and-bass combinations while front man Ed Schrader wastes nary a word in his concise, often funny, eviscerations of life as we know it.
