Hovering somewhere at the intersection of Nirvana and Neil Young, Rex exploded—or drifted, rather—onto the slowcore scene in the mid-1990s. Taking its cue from bands like Codeine, which drummer Doug Scharin was a part of, the trio including Curtis Harvey on Guitar and vocals and Phil Spirito on bass managed to synthesize the dynamic eruptions of grunge, twinkling guitars of bluegrass, and sprawling string arrangements of chamber pop to forge a sound all their own. Their music has never been available digitally and just recently has started to be rereleased by the Numero Group with new vinyl releases coming in 2023.

Taking their name from a mid-century avant-garde photography movement, Seattle’s Fotoform create melodic, gauzy, driving post-punk and darkwave. Their second album, Horizons, pivots from the wall of guitars on their self-titled debut to a more nuanced and cinematic canvas, fusing the textures of shoegaze and dream pop with the angular swing of post-punk. Now a trio of Kim House and Geoff Cox (C’est la Mort) and Michael Schorr (Death Cab for Cutie, Long Winters), Fotoform have further refined their plaintive, bass-driven kinetic swoon in “a riot of ‘80s post-punk.” (The Big Takeover) “Brooding and gorgeous, driving and delicate, atmospheric and urgent... If you’re a sucker for shoegaze, dream pop, post-punk, or any other music that makes you wish you were a teenager in the eighties coated in layers of eyeliner and hairspray, Horizons will scratch several of your itches.” (Tuned Up) Press “The excellent new LP from Seattle’s Fotoform pairs the moodiness of goth with drifting dream pop melodies, resulting in bewitching songs.” – Bandcamp New & Notable “This Seattle band’s second album is a well-crafted blend of post-punk and dream-pop with atmospheric guitars and synths, driving rhythms, ethereal vocals, hypnotic song hooks and lyrics of grief, love and loss.” – KEXP “One of the finest pleasures for fans is marveling over how a favorite band can regularly top previous releases. Drummer Michael Schorr and bassist/keyboardist/singer Kim House dig hard into hard-swinging, booming post-punk rhythms—simultaneously sonorous and mean—which vaults Geoffrey Cox’s guitar effects battering into cloudbursts of maximum dreampop. House’s pipes have never sounded more convincing, like Lush’s Miki Berenyi soldered into Slowdive’s Rachel Goswell. One of our greatest American Anglo-esque bands. Wow.” – Jack Rabid, The Big Takeover

ANGULAR ROCK, DARK JAZZ AND GOOFBALL FUNK. MAP OF THE WOULDS EMERGES FROM THE LAWLESS FRINGES OF THE SEATTLE MUSIC SCENE WITH SIMPLE 17-CHORD POP TO CHALLENGE YOUR BRAIN AND BUTT.