For your next post-punk fix, turn to Spiritual Pollution, the new full-length from Public Interest. Written and performed almost entirely by Chris Natividad, the album’s 25 minutes are a trudging march through morose decay, a reflection of the world that surrounds us, backing us into a corner. Surveillance, stagnance, suffering—see it all in the music video for the opening track “Undone” below, which features the port of Oakland, completely empty BART stations, and even a little cameo of the Lower Grand Radio studio. Album highlight may be “Slow Burn,” composed of entrancing rhythm guitar, a second guitar lick sneaking in like a question, and Natividad drably singing-speaking “over and over and over again.”
