Chicago four-piece 8-Bit Creeps make music for people who want to have fun even when they’re morbidly concerned about the future. The synth-heavy Chicago rock band formed in 2016, incorporating three members of local outfit the Van Goghs who wanted to try something new. Since then, 8-Bit Creeps have released about a dozen singles and EPs as well as an impressive debut full-length, 2022’s Dress for the Future . Weird jagged edges abound in their songs, but 8-Bit Creeps smooth them over with fuzzy hooks that flow like water from the group’s deep well of affection for 60s and 70s psych-pop, postpunk, and new wave. Even when the songs indulge in surface-level levity, it never undercuts the gravity at their heart: On the Dress for the Future track “Madness,” for instance, video-game synths

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