Chicago has always been a hub for experimental guitar music.
The Windy City seems to effortlessly fuse free jazz, electronics and rock into one unholy mess, produced groups such as Tortoise or Shellac in the process.
Dead Rider are mainstays of the Chicago scene, but more in the way that Chicago bands are so difficult to pigeonhole. The band's music feels molten, fluid, veering from influence to influence at breakneck speed, never settling, continually in a state of flux.
New album 'Chills On Glass' will be released on April 7th via Drag City, and it's a another impossible to categorise yet unmistakeable document from the group.
Take new cut 'Blank Screen': glitchy electronics merge with righteous riffs, with Dead Rider showcasing an immediacy to sit alongside their cerebral nature.
Listen to it now.