Nupping

VINYL FORMAT. Since forming in 2009, Baltimore's Dope Body have evolved on a truly logarithmic scale. Moving from stark, primitive punk-metal to genre-swallowing, unabashedly-'90s-referencing, polyrhythmic brutes in less than two years, the band has created some kind of bizarre new standard for the mutant-art-punk-beaster set. The band's debut album, Nupping, manages to recall the best of the past thirty years of the heavier, more obtuse and rhythmically inventive end of punk rock, as well as the kind of formative-influence-stuff a lot of current artsy, heavy bands don't wanna acknowledge—Rage, Wu Tang, nu metal. Michael Jackson, the Beach Boys, and contemporary R&B pop radio.