Standards - Fruit Island Cassette Color:White and screamo

and screamo

indie and emo

somehow both calculated and carefree with its breezy and bright character

and the like — songwriter Joseph Stevens weaves personal stories into the wider fabric of the natural world

relationships and uninvited advances

Standards - Fruit Island Cassette Color:White and screamoLed by the exuberant melodies of cross tapping guitarist Marcos Mena, the LA duo standards make meticulous instrumental math rock whose effervescent riffs teem with sunny enthusiasm. On the band's debut full length, Fruit Island, standards deftly retool math rock's unforgiving, challenging tendencies into a style that is both danceable and compositionally profound. Drummer Forrest Rice's boisterous chops complement Mena's unpredictable melodies,