Crispy Crunchy Nothing

by PACKS

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bosefff i went on a roadtrip and PACKS is all i wanted to hear Favorite track: Cheese.

lazerock "Just for an hour, f**k everything..." Madeline Link must have been born in the late 90s, yet she's steeped in the indie rock of the years just before she was born. Her aesthetic is so coloured by The Good Stuff that this album could have been presented to me as a lost gem from that era and I'd have taken it as gospel. Fans of Pavement and The Shins in particular will take Packs to their hearts, but there are also lovely little echoes of Bilinda Butcher at times. Beautiful, melodic slacker tones Favorite track: Rag Doll.

dragic27 Yea this album is da bomb, thanks to PACKS and Fire Talk! Favorite track: 4th of July.

Art Fin I liked the previous album but this one is even better and is immediately gripping with its best songs wisely loaded at the top. I have not flipped the record over yet. Favorite track: Cheese.

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1.	Cheese 02:19	buy track
2.	4th of July 02:56	buy track
3.	Dishwater 01:50	buy track
4.	Abalone 02:06	buy track
5.	Sunscreen + Epoxy 02:36	buy track
6.	Brown Eyes 01:31	buy track
7.	Not The Same 02:44	buy track
8.	Late to the Festivities 01:10	buy track
9.	EC 01:53	buy track
10.	Say My Name 01:18	buy track
11.	Smallest One 02:48	buy track
12.	Rag Doll 02:25	buy track
13.	Laughing Till I Cry 01:20	buy track
14.	Always Be A Kid 02:52	buy track

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Crispy Crunchy Nothing puts to rest any notion Madeline had about finding the end. Burnout, dead-end jobs, bike theft, stress dreams, heartbreak — PACKS move forward through them all one line, one lick, one beat at a time, equal parts Alex G’s whimsy and Helvetia’s thunderous dynamics. Sticking together songs written in Toronto, Ottawa and Mexico City (while Madeline completed a papier-mâché residency), Crispy Crunchy Nothing revisits the fuzzy alt-rock of 2021 debut Take the Cake and adds some folksy twang to the mix for an album that explores the tension between independence and isolation, between living life to the fullest and feeling like you’re wasting your time.

Madeline reunited with bandmates Dexter Nash (lead guitar), Noah O’Neil (bass) and Shane Hooper (drums, backup vocals) for a weeklong recording retreat at a cabin on Lac Sarrazin in rural Quebec that they dubbed the Trout House, where the quartet bashed out all of the album’s 14 tracks and where the sauna doubled as nightly ritual and recording booth. After spending 18 months fleshing out demos over a Google Drive folder, uncertain of the band’s IRL future, the week was propelled by the kinetic energy of old friends reuniting in person, making sense of the smorgasbord of gear they crammed into the cabin.

And while the specter of death looms over Crispy Crunchy Nothing and its brisk, folk-rock vignettes of loneliness, yearning and confusion, so too does Madeline’s sense of humour. It’s bone-dry, tucked within her drawling vocals, and buried beneath guitars that alternately sneer and twang. But it’s there, the album’s beating heart — a sense of purpose and unflinching resolve evident even in its title, taken from Madeline’s description of biting into a moldy apple.

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released March 31, 2023

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Toronto, ON

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Melt the Honey

Jan 2024
Crispy Crunchy Nothing

Mar 2023
Abalone

Dec 2022
WOAH

Jul 2022
Drink Rain

Aug 2021
ouch + b-sides

Aug 2021
Take The Cake

May 2021
Hangman

Feb 2021

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