On Friday, March 1, local creepy-punk outfit Absolutely Not will add more music to the pile they started building in 2013: they’ll drop their third album, Problematic, via local label No Trend. The band’s seventh release overall, Problematic is also their first as a four-piece—the core trio of singer-guitarist Donnie Moore, keyboardist Madison Moore, and drummer Santiago Guerrero have recruited Meat Wave’s Chris Sutter as member number four, adding another layer of atonal guitar. On the brand-new “Bottom of the Pit,” the first single from Problematic, Absolutely Not build on their usual paranoid, dystopian spazz-punk by leaning harder into its darkness, pushing the song with a midtempo throb smeared with shrill, dissonant synth noise.
