Standards - Fruit Island Cassette Color:White And through it all

And through it all

traditional drums

On their aptly titled third album

its lines are punctuated with poetic acceptance—“As you sow your seed / I’ll reap from everything that stays

How could one possibly try to speak softly in a world filled with such deafening shouting from all sides

Standards - Fruit Island Cassette Color:White And through it allLed by the exuberant melodies of cross tapping guitarist Marcos Mena, the LA duo standards make meticulous instrumental math rock whose effervescent riffs teem with sunny enthusiasm. On the band's debut full length, Fruit Island, standards deftly retool math rock's unforgiving, challenging tendencies into a style that is both danceable and compositionally profound. Drummer Forrest Rice's boisterous chops complement Mena's unpredictable melodies,