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Washington DC’s CITY-STATE captures that shimmering, yet stark area where early 80’s post-punk meets modern brit-pop. Self-recorded and self-produced, this debut EP resonates with the doleful yet romantic, driven urgent grandeur of those genres. Jim Anderson, Matthew Kalinowski, Daryl Marco, and Joao Malhinha make up a quartet of diverse musicians moving forward into a new musical realm. CITY-STATE was born in Jim’s apartment one summer where he and Matthew (who had bonded over a shared love of Elliott Smith and Iron Maiden) started writ...read more