One standout track this week from Cruel Ploy’s album EVOL. This is a stunner and You’re Offended By Your Shadow is the best way in. ✨
Cruel Ploy – You’re Offended By Your Shadow
Cruel Ploy channel glitching distortion and live-wire guitars into one of the sharpest moments on EVOL, confrontational and uncomfortably human.
You’re Offended By Your Shadow is the track to pick from EVOL, a moody, industrial-leaning piece that uses tension as its main instrument. Glitch textures rub up against live-wire guitars, the vocal is part accusation and part self-examination, and the whole thing moves with the mechanical pulse of a band that clearly enjoys sitting off-axis from the pop-punk mainstream. It’s got a touch of Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead in mood, and that’s exactly what makes it land.
Cruel Ploy are a four-piece alternative outfit whose own bio says it better than anyone else could: they didn’t form, they surfaced. The band have built a catalogue on tension, glitch textures against live-wire guitars and emotionally unstable pop hooks, and EVOL is the full-length that pulls all of that together. A real banger, check it out below.