Sprain

Los Angeles-based experimental artists Sprain played downer music at cacophonous volumes. active from 2018 to 2023. Formed in L.A. in early 2018 by Alex Kent and April Gerloff, Sprain‘s initial home-recorded forays into minimalistic slowcore resulted in their self-titled EP (2018) that distinguished them from the lo-fi pack through visceral expressions of depressed life. Soon, guitarist Alex Simmons and drummer Max Pretzer joined, folding tumultuous noise rock, drone, and flirtations with the avant-garde into the band’s arsenal. Their first album, As Lost Through Collision, unfurls threads of spidery 90’s rock (think Unwound, Duster, Slint, etc.) and is a complex and cathartic exercise in tension and restraint. Touring also converged these explorations into Sprain’s current sound: pure 21st century panic strained through a wall of piercing, feedbacking guitar amps. Excerpt from their record label :https://nowflensing.com/blogs/news/sprain-as-lost-through-collision The band split up on October 16th, 2023. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.