Knowso "Hypnotic Smack" Format:LP - Black Initially setting out to test

Initially setting out to test the waters with a four-song EP

Outside of Me

these guys are intent upon driving home passionate "emo" the way you knew it before the shopping malls got a hold of it

but the merch lines at their shows draw more attention than the opening bands

Knowso "Hypnotic Smack" Format:LP - Black Initially setting out to testDescription Pressing Info Hypnotic Smack is the new album from Knowso, the Cleveland punk duo featuring Nathan Ward (Cruelster, Perverts Again, the Carp) and Jayson Gerycz (Cloud Nothings). If youve heard Knowsos music, you know theyre spiritual children of Devo, both in their proclivity toward dense and nervy rhythmic experimentation and in the way their lyrics turn a cracked, distorted mirror at the world and its many absurdities. Like the Falls