Chicago’s Loto Ball Show is the brainchild of its namesake and lead singer, former Phantom Limbs vocalist Loto Ball. Fusing doomsday dissonance with stellar musicianship and raw energy, Loto Ball Show captures the disorientation of today’s youth in its dizzying post-punk compositions. Ball’s atonal, Ian Curtis-esque vocals play off the band’s steely, cold synths and Dixieland brass to create a strong sense of atmosphere and disorder. Having cut their teeth hosting variety shows and putting on “absurdist puppet shows,” the seven-piece micro-orchestra’s current incarnation specializes in skewing the conventional pop and rock format to create its indefinable sound. Noisy, spiky, and reckless, “Dead Kiss” finds the Loto Ball Show at its edgiest and most captivating.

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