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Coming up in the UK mid-late 2000s indie music scene

Episodic is fashioned from ten feverish bouts of guitar-pop

To coalesce this childlike playfulness into their musical identity

Standards - Fruit Island CD homepage as are thematic elements thatLed by the exuberant melodies of cross tapping guitarist Marcos Mena, the LA duo standards make meticulous instrumental math rock whose effervescent riffs teem with sunny enthusiasm. On the band's debut full length, Fruit Island, standards deftly retool math rock's unforgiving, challenging tendencies into a style that is both danceable and compositionally profound. Drummer Forrest Rice's boisterous chops complement Mena's unpredictable melodies,