BAD OPTICS is an art punk band from Seattle known for their confrontational and provocative songwriting, engaging and enraging audiences up and down the Cascadia region. Their songs center on off-kilter rhythms and broken time signatures that slice their riffs into pieces, circular and interlocking guitar melodies, and vocals ranging from a quiet whisper to the manic bark of the desperate (mostly the latter, if we're being honest). Lyrically the band touches on such fun and lighthearted subjects as 20th century French nationalism, the encroaching heat death of the planet, and whether or not your friends like you (they don't).