There’s nothing lucky about the lottery according to sludgy Philly shoegaze revivalists They Are Gutting a Body of Water. On LOTTO, they rage against the circumstances of the modern person, birthed into what is meant to be the most prosperous time in world history but littered with more man-made atrocities and horrors than most sane people can deal with. The music on LOTTO is angry, but where They Are Gutting a Body of Water make their mark is in the willingness to persist, a defiance that courses through this record. Amongst the crashing cymbals, monotone screeds against modern capitalism, and thunderous guitar melodies, a stubbornness peeks through like a sliver of sunshine in a thunderstorm. This isn’t optimism, but a desire to fight for those no longer able. On the emo-leaning “american food,” they incorporate turntablism and the scraggly indie rock of early Broken Social Scene as the lyrics scan like the most poetic rest-stop bathroom graffiti imaginable; an indictment of the villainy at America’s core: “The benefit of believing you’re bad/Is that you get somebody to blame.”