SPICE 'A Better Treatment'

SPICE singer Ross Farrar speaks of the band’s ambition to forge a sort of aesthetic patois: a mode of expression as strikingly regional as it is recognizable. Last year’s self-titled debut, released in the depths of the pandemic, fully achieved this goal, distilling decades of North Bay punk and post-hardcore into an urgent, artful set of emotive unrest. Their latest single, "A Better Treatment" b/w "Everyone Gets In", further refines the group’s singular mix of weathered melody and abrasive poetics, equal parts bracing, bruised, and cryptic.