Since 2012 there has been a K-pop boy band called Exo. One time their Jason Derulo collab made it into the bullet points of a Week In Pop column, but we've otherwise overlooked them. And now it's fair to say the K-pop Exo will be overshadowed in the Stereogum canon by the New York punk band Exo.
The American Exo released their self-titled cassette last summer, and today it's been reissued by the UK's great primitive punk label La Vida Es Un Mus Discos with an extra song. Exo presents an '80s-reminiscent strand of punk — unkempt in a hardcore-adjacent way, but with a heavy post-punk/new wave influence too. Tacked onto the end of the tracklist is "Mermaid Legend," a 14-minute instrumental that sounds like freeform sound collage.
Stream the full LP below.
Exo is out now on La Vida Es Un Mus Discos.
