Hello Operator!, Connect Me To Eraser’s “DVD” Video

Back in July, the Philly no-wave revivalists Eraser released Operator!, their latest for hometown underground fixture Siltbreeze Records. The album came to my attention via recent Album Of The Week recipient Winston Hightower, who toured with Eraser this year, continuing a longstanding connection between Siltbreeze and the Columbus lo-fi community. Operator! is full of noisy, fidgety art-punk songs topped off by Sonam Parikh's piercing microphone presence. If you played the album for me without context and told me it was recorded concurrently with the new TELLUS reissue in early '80s downtown NYC, you could maybe convince me. But no, this is the sound of artful agitation in the present, taking cues from the outré classics but fueled by current annoyance and outrage. Soul Glo's Pierce Jordan wrote their band bio, which tells us the album's songs are about "grief and death, analog mechanisms in the face of modernity, immigrant child shit, the recognition that nothing is inherently good or bad, self-dignity, self-efficacy, autonomy, having choices, searching for more."Eraser have a new video out today for album highlight "DVD," which offers a good excuse to point you in their directio...