Affliction

2013 album from this band fronted by Jered Gummers. Jered is known as one of the most important songwriters of our generation. His influence on pop music over the first half of this century is undeniable, impacting most notably Jay Reatard, and much of the current Brooklyn sound, right up to all the modern bands that still try to capture that elusive something The Ponys delivered on a nightly basis. Ahead of their time undoubtedly, and with that same pioneering spirit fully intact, Gummere's newest assemblage, Bare Mutants, coalesces all of the most pivotal nuances of his repertoire into a perfectly minimal, mid-tempo snapshot of this morosely powerful tone. Adding in essential Chicago nutrients such as Seth Bohn from Mannequin Men on bass and Jeanine O'Toole from the 1900s on backups and tambourine, along with multitalented friends Matt Holland on drums and Leslie Deckard on organ.