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(Self-released, CD, digital) Scientists are saying the future is going to be far more futuristic than they originally predicted, Sarah Michelle Gellar s pseudointellectual porn star character Krysta Now says in the divisive cult film Southland Tales. As philosopher Steven Shaviro points out in his 2010 book Post-Cinematic Affect, this line is (intentionally) ridiculous, since futuristic is not an objective category but an anticipatory inflection of the present. That definition aptly describes the futurism of indie-pop outfit Strangled Darlings Twenty Twenty, their fifth full-length album. The formerly peripatetic duo of Jess Anderly and George Veech, now based in Bethel, assesses the present with astute commentary and progressive production. But the musicians vectors shoot unambiguously forward much like the RV they lived in for three years while touring America. By chronicling and criticizing hot socioeconomic and political topics of today ....