Seattle duo Iska Dhaaf have spent the past three years writing their debut album Even The Sun Will Burn. In many, many ways it is an album of contrasts – joyful and melancholic, subtle and brutal, uncompromising and welcoming it mixes punk, psychedelia, indie rock and even dream pop into a triumphant whole that manages to be much more than the mere sum of its parts.

Try a couple of tracks on for size, album opener All The Kids with its echoes of the Cure at their most uplifting (contrasts again) and the sweetly downbeat and yearning Happiness.

You can order the album from Bandcamp here.

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