FACS

Building on a legacy of Chicago experimental indie rock, Facs transform post-punk and post-rock into an exploratory, cathartic sound of their own. Formed from the ashes of the like-minded outfit Disappears, the band stripped their music down to its starkest rhythmic foundations on 2018's debut Negative Houses, then added more experimentation and melody on albums such as 2020's Void Moments, where they combined shoegaze, jazz, and dub influences with strikingly spectral results. Facs' evolution continued on 2021's Present Tense and 2023's Still Life in Decay, both of which channeled the band's heaviness into songs with haunting emotional impact.