Drahla

Drahla updates post-punk with intense, cerebral songs inspired by legends like Wire, the Fall, and This Heat. As a trio, the U.K.-based band combined Luciel Brown's deadpan vocals and powerful rhythm section with alternately fierce and hypnotic results on 2019's debut album Useless Coordinates. When they became a quartet, Drahla's music only became more complex and cathartic on 2024's angeltape. Drahla formed in late 2015, when singer/guitarist Luciel Brown, bassist Rob Riggs, and drummer Mike Ainsley moved from London to Leeds after feeling out of place in the capital. The ...