Stream a blistering new track from the upcoming State Faults album
California band State Faults gets classified as post-hardcore, though the intense songs on the group’s 2012 debut, Desolate Peaks, felt more “hardcore” than “post.” But Desolate Peaks was hardly all bombast; the band could expertly create airy atmospheres, but seemed to take pleasure in collapsing them into a maelstrom of swirling guitars and Jonny Andrew’s shouted vocals. (The seminal Japanese post-hardcore band Envy is an easy comparison.)