Wet Tropics: Everybody Get In: Yellow Vinyl LP

Chicago-based indie punks Wet Tropics release their Everybody Get In album this Friday, November 27. For the unindoctrinated, Wet Tropics are an enigma: a beautifully misshapen, wonderfully weird piece of the modern musical puzzle that firmly overlaps multiple rock genres all at once. On their forthcoming album, Everybody Get In, it’s not uncommon for Wet Tropics to playfully occupy the same hazy reverb-soaked space as post-punk forbearers Psychedelic Furs and the angular, art-damaged rock bombast of Ty Segall, Osees, or Jacuzzi Boys in the course of a single three-minute foray. Although the band’s sound may lean to the West Coast, they haven’t eschewed their Midwest roots entirely. You’ll get those pungent whiffs of Pixies’ and The Jesus and Mary Chain’s cool anthemic college rock color mixes here too! Guitarist and vocalist John Rejba began his career in the Midwest indie and post-rock bands Boys Life and The Farewell Bend. While his contributions to songwriting and rhythmic bass pla