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After years on the DIY circuit, the Philly group condenses its freaky energy into 14 art-punk vignettes about Stevie Wonder, satanic snakes, and a hallucinatory Virgin Mary.
The subtext of every favorable rock album review in 2020 is a wistful âMan, I bet this album would sound great live right now.,â but with Godcaster, the sentiment bears stating outright:
Man, I bet this album would be incredibly fun live. In fact, I know as much. Godcaster, an eccentric weirdo-punk five-piece, has spent several years honing their raucous performances in the Philadelphia DIY scene, opening for bands like Of Montreal and Guerilla Toss, whose high-octane outbursts are a likely influence on this debut. When you watch pre-pandemic clips of the band playing, you can see them compress their energy into a semicircle, shrieking in unison and raising their fists and tambourines in the air, as though engaged in some strange fertility ritual.