Drug Spider
With True Name, Cats on Leashes.
High Noon Saloon 701A E. Washington Ave., Madison, Wisconsin 53703
Anjee Sorge
Locals Drug Spider take hold of the High Noon with their floating and ephemeral brand of math rock. Heavily syncopated and with uncanny time signatures, as any math rock should be, Drug Spider also finds a way to make their music a tad more approachable than some of their peers. On their latest record, the square root of negative zero, this is due to the delicate guitar work, which weaves between taking up minimal space and taking up lots of it. The drums and bass deftly build around that dynamic for a pleasant result. With Cats on Leashes, winners of the 2018 MAMA for Hard Rock/Punk Album, and True Name.