When I first heard Baltimore singer-songwriter Ed Schrader six years ago he'd been making antifolk that approached throwback 50s pop with a minimalist, amateurish pizzazz—with just a single floor tom and his sometimes high-pitched wail Schrader could make some strange tunes that evoke the "forever young" aesthetic K Records' Calvin Johnson's been doing for decades. Schrader's music got better once he teamed up with bassist Devlin Rice and started making loud, stomping postpunk as Ed Schrader's Music Beat.…
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