CIA Debutante - Music For Small Rooms 12" it almost (but not quite)

it almost (but not quite) masks its venomously-spat lyrical content behind angular basslines that Steve Hanley would’ve been proud to call his own and guitar chords thet teeter and totter between the blunt force of Black Flag and the dissonant crunch of Gang of Four

the iron-sights are set on the era of the red scare and Cold War – “The Enemy is Listening” draws heavily from personal research and reading

how in turn it frames themselves

But they persisted

CIA Debutante - Music For Small Rooms 12" it almost (but not quite)Tiptoeing in, stealth like, CIA Debutantes Music For Small Rooms 12 on Ever Never Records tempts the listener with secrets and their inevitable spilling out into the open. Over the course of several releases, the France based duo has shown a real gift for delving into the particulars of paranoia, seeding their songs with threats disguised as hooks. On its perfectly succinct new EP, CIA Debutante refines this method, as each of the six tracks plays