Stream Manic Splits’ Rad Garage-Punk Debut Album

Manic Splits are a new band out of Columbus playing the kind of straight-ahead garage-punk the city has specialized in for decades. The group’s self-titled debut is full of hard-charging rock songs with rough edges and rousing energy, narrated by Joseph Bilinski’s blunt bellows and ranting, raving outbursts and sometimes submerged in walls of lo-fi noise. To invoke their Columbus forebears, it’s like Cheater Slicks amped up to New Bomb Turks energy levels. Or maybe, for those less tuned...

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