Neutrals

Neutrals was first made up of guitarist/vocalist Allan McNaughton (who was first active in the 1990s in Glaswegian outfit Snugglepuss, then played in the bands Airfix Kits and upon relocating to the Bay Area in the 2000s), drummer Phil Lantz, and bassist Phil Benson.

In 2016 and 2017, the trio self-released two demo tapes that captured their raw, self-recorded post-punk sound. The group's debut album, Kebab Disco, arrived in 2019 on the label, and they went deeper into post-punk and mod-pop styles on two 7" EPs, Rent/Your House and Personal Computing, both released in 2020. Neutrals released four more songs on the ever-so-slightly Oi!-influenced 2022 EP Bus Stop Nights before Benson stepped away from the band and new bassist/vocalist Lauren Matsui joined the group.

'Formed when Lindsay Corstorphine and Christopher Murphy of Sauna Youth and brethren Oliver and Patrick Fisher of Cold Pumas were summoned by northern ink-slinger Maike Hale-Jones, Marcel Wave’s debut offering is a walk through a smoke-filled pub with yellowing wallpaper and all eyes on you. It’s a chronicle of the death of the docklands, the decline of industry, of the high street, of civic pride, of civilisations, of hopes and dreams.'