Street Eaters – Opaque [GOLD VINYL] – New LP

Oakland post-punk rockers Street Eaters' brand new studio album features seven tracks that thrum with both rage and redemption. Opaque by Street EatersSince the band’s 2017 LP The Envoy, not only did they weather a global pandemic along with the rest of us, frontwoman Megan March also had a child. While becoming a mother was, as she puts it, “an incredible joy and opportunity to rewire emotional pathways and deep wounds,” it was also a reminder of her own childhood; March’s own mother was violently homophobic and eventually ejected Megan and her teenage sister — both queer — from their home. For March, childbirth was both a traumatizing and transformational experience. Ironically born on the Fourth of July, her baby immediately entered a world steeped in bureaucracy, as the hospital was so understaffed that Megan was neglected until the last moment, forced to endure an emergency C-section. “I was borderline dehumanized by the toxic, misogynistic nature of the American medical system an