Alpha Male Tea Party

Alpha Male Tea Party are another stroke in the fast expanding painting that is the “bright” math-rock community, once spearheaded by acts like Adebisi Shank and And So I Watch You From Afar and now containing as diverse acts as VASA or MNHM. The joining thread seems to be first a musical and, second, a geographical one. As far as the music goes, one can expect major chords played over energetic beats, creating frantic excursions into disjointedly optimistic riffs and an overall sensation of…satisfied loss? Let’s go with that. Geographically, the main output in this field seems to erupt from the British Isles, Perfidious Albion, or however else you’d like to call that strange, strange group of disparate places.

One of the UK’s great, auspicious instrumental prospects, Dialects have rapidly garnered acclaim with their own take on euphoric, triumphal instrumental post-rock. The band have amassed favourable comparisons to And So I Watch You From Afar, sleepmakeswaves and Alpha Male Tea Party ever since their formation in 2013. After the release of their first EP, 2015’s LTKLTL (Let The Kids Light These Lanterns), Dialects toured relentlessly, earning coveted support slots on a gluttony of bills and playing some of the country’s most prestigious progressive post-rock and metal festivals (ArcTanGent, Damnation, Strangeforms and Tramlines).