"As Deerhoof dives into the messes that younger generations have to clean up, and art's role in the process, they sound rawer than they have in years. These songs are filled with intentionally frayed edges and jarring edits, as if they were created with whatever broken equipment the band could find after society collapsed. It's an approach that's both timely and familiar, echoing the fraught state of the world in the early 2020s as well as the relatively crude sound quality of Deerhoof's first album, 1997's The Man, the King, the Girl"