Creators of cantankerous, chaotic L.A. garage punk, Lamps made their reputation with a noisy, stripped-down sound seasoned with occasional bursts of electronic anarchy as the band pounded out the beat. A group that notoriously takes their time between releases, Lamps first stepped out with a self-titled EP in 2005, while their better-structured and more-frantic sophomore album, Under the Water Under the Ground, belatedly appeared in 2012. They introduced a new lineup that was every bit as frantic as before on 2020's People with Faces.
Lamps was the brainchild of singer and gu...