Stream Plague Skater’s Revved-Up, Bashed-Out, All-Over-The-Place Finale Plague Skater III

One of my favorite COVID-era Bandcamp finds was Plague Skater, the lo-fi rock project of New Jersey's Will Schwester. Under the Plague Skater banner, Schwester kicked out two albums' worth of genre-hopping DIY intensity, 2020's self-titled debut and 2021's Plague Skater II. Since then, the Plague Skater account on Bandcamp has yielded lots of experimental releases under various guises, but not until today did he give us one last Plague Skater album.In a statement on Bandcamp, Schwester says Plague Skater III will be the final release under this name. It's a wild ride, merging heavy grunge power chords, shoegazey passages, out-of-control punk segments, static-shrouded power-pop, AmRep-worthy noise-rock, as well as detours into everything from acoustic balladry to abstract electronics. In terms of buzz bands from two decades ago, it's a little bit Wavves, a little bit No Age. I had assumed this project was already toast, so the existence of an album this bracing is exciting. Schwester will take it from here:this record took way too long to make.way too long of the same day, the same bullshit, all the same, all the same, over and over, again and again, and i got sick and tired of bein...