Sympathy Flowers Dreams of Lurking Fear LP
Dreams of Lurking Fear is the first full-length by Oakland, CA dark punk band SYMPATHY FLOWERS. However, Dreams of Lurking Fear is an expansion of last year’s Through the Veil cassette (which was SYMPATHY FLOWERS inaugural release), with most of the cassette tracks being reworked with a better density and richness for the LP. There’s something in SYMPATHY FLOWERS’ sound that reminds me of the below-the-radar punk that cemented my relationship to our illustrious genre in my teen years. Maybe it’s the driving rhythms blended with the quick shift guitar riffs, or maybe it’s the poetic-but-direct lyrics that are defiant while deviant. Whatever it is, Dreams of Lurking Fear scratches an itch I didn’t even know I had.