Purest Form- Resistance PREORDER OUT 9/4

This is a preorder. Albums can be picked up or will be mailed out upon street date. Order by 8/21/26 to get by 9/4/26.

Label: Dais

PUREST FORM pulls visceral dance-punk music from modern-day angst and unrest. The newly formed Los Angeles trio — vocalist Story Beeson, guitarist/programmer Madi Woodward, and bassist Riley Oikawa-Dahlson — draws on their respective backgrounds in hardcore bands, and a shared love of industrial and techno, splicing the intensely heavy with the playful and sensual. RESISTANCE, their debut with Dais Records, delivers a potent, 6-track anarchist assault on the system, fueled by collective anger amidst late-stage capitalism and a year of nonstop trauma in LA, from the fires to ICE. “Resistance, less of an idea, more of an absolute action that has to be taken,” asserts Beeson. RESISTANCE builds on the promise of their self-titled 2024 EP, a sonic blueprint that Stereogum likened to nine inch nails’s Broken. RESISTANCE is more agile and charged-up, a cataclysmic set with structural jumps and hard left turns, confronting sonic and societal constructs. Serrated riffs meet fractured breakbeats, basslines, and body-quaking feedback, with nods to death metal and acid house in equal measure, all punctuated by Beeson’s urgent, anthemic narration, often shouted to near-shreds. “It's like a unification of all the music that we love and feel. And it makes sense to us. If it sounds good, we don’t care where it comes from” says Woodward. If they channeled Reznor’s rawest era on their first release, here the group adds a spiritual dash of Voodoo-U, or more directly, The Prodigy, whose iconic “Breathe” has been covered loyally in their live sets and is captured properly in this collection for posterity.

Track listing:

1. ANIMAL
2. BREAK
3. BEYOND TERROR
4. MORE
5. BASS RESISTANCE
6. BREATHE