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Since post-punk morphed from an offshoot of new wave into something less bound by generation but more nebulous as a whole, artists have been utilizing the colder elements of the genre to expose the emptiness of consumerism and to push back against the bankrupt neon hues of success and progress.  Night Cleaner (https://geographicnorth.bandcamp.com/album/even), All the Saints guitarist and vocalist Matthew Lambert focuses these social queries into an analysis of sound and self. The name conjures visions of fluorescent hallways and patterned carpets in deserted office parks, but the isolation and introspective longing of  his tracks lend themselves to his focused meditation.  Lambert’s concepts  as a solo artist come in the form of a more ambient soundscape paired with a hearbeat like pulsing percussive backbone. His debut release, 2015’s A Sketch for Winter III: Greensleeves, was an emotionally resonant dreamscape, which, though hazy and narcotic, was also pastoral and intimate—a bucolic scene from another planet. Even, his 2nd ep is no less delicate, but here the textures take sharper forms. Yet within this collection of densely curated post-punk, there’s a spr

awling universe of individual palettes and tones.