Album Review: Diet Cig - Swear I'm Good At This

Sometimes a two-piece can come out thin and slip into overcompensation.

Instead of filling those similar spaces with bouts of distended distortion and riff indulgence, Diet Cig lean into their sparsity like it was Archimedes' lever. There's a raging softness knitted into the duo's angst that makes their debut joyful and refreshing, both in timbre and taste. Swear I'm Good At This is an aural security blanket wrapping up the damaged teen in all of us, telling us it's alright not being okay, being hurt, angry, happy, manic; but this album is so far from alright — it's great.