Optimizer

by Stuck

Optimizer cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 27 March 2026
  • Label: Exploding in Sound
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 34:58
  • Community rating: 3.7/5 from 12 ratings

Artists on this release: Kristyn Chapman, Tim Green, Greg Obis, Zach Elias, Sarah Clausen, Andrew Oswald, David Algrim

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Chicago's Stuck delivers a tense and angular blast of art punk on their album 'Optimizer'. The record is characterized by jagged, dissonant guitar riffs, a tight and driving rhythm section, and sardonic, spoken-sung vocals that tackle themes of modern anxiety. It's a sharp, energetic, and intelligently crafted post-punk record.

Genres

Descriptors: tense, male vocalist, idiosyncratic, satirical, confrontational, guitars, rhythmic, dissonant, melodic, DIY

Tracklist

  1. Totally Vexed (3:17)
  2. Instakill (2:42)
  3. Sicko (3:18)
  4. Deadlift (3:45)
  5. Less Is More (0:46)
  6. Fire, Man (5:13)
  7. Net Negative (3:44)
  8. It Isn't (3:27)
  9. Punchline (3:41)
  10. GG (5:02)

Credits

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