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Music never really needs a rhyme or reason to be made. Sure, you can release two albums in a year to show that youâve evolved ( cough Taylor Swift cough ), but it kind of just feels like a marketing ploy. Or a crazy band from the UK can come out of nowhere with a concept album that blows your socks off.Â
LICE, not the itchy one that digs hair and scalps, have burst into 2021 with a weird, beautiful and absolute ripper of a debut album, âWASTELAND: What Ails Our People.â The songs inhabit a strange, Kurt Vonnegutt-flavored landscape filled with hookers, shapeshifters and tricksters. The young four-piece is made up of self-described satirists, and while the lyrics can be tongue-in-cheek, the music is serious business.Â