SISTER SANDY

INDEPENDENT

Floruit

They mightn’t yet be a household name, but we’re predicting it won’t be long before every emo revivalist and their cat start spamming their Twitter feeds with Sister Sandy lyrics. Floruit is the Ohio trio’s second album of doughy DIY pop-punk anthems, and packs across its ten searing and sharply produced tracks a cascade of insanely massive hooks and catchy-as–hell choruses. Ebbing and flowing around his warm and warbly vocal quips, Chris Joecken’s guitar work toes a needle-fine line between clean and crunch; there’s an almost grungy edge to his perfervid fretting, yet somehow he makes it all sound cool and ethereal. Loveably loose, jaunty and nostalgic, Floruit is well worth a punt for ‘90s skate- and ‘00s pop-punk tragics alike.