Ideal Fathers's lyrics & chords

Alive since 2006, Ideal Fathers is a band that shouldn't work. You shouldn't be able to mix edgy Gang of Four-esque guitar adventurism and funky rhythms with the thorniness and snarling vocals of early Dead Kennedys and get anything but an unholy mess. Theirs is a collection of sonic elements that seem to pull at each other in destructive ways, yet through a clever legerdemain of musical invention, the Fathers have somehow come up with a new shading of dance punk that is thrillingly aggressive but with an expansiveness of tone that suggests the...read more