grumpyismyleastfavoriteband's music sounds tapped straight from an underground pop scene in your favorite fantasy franchise rather than our own terminally deficient IRL. Press play on their Piebald EP, out September 26 via bayonetrecords, and you can imagine yourself in a dragon's den converted to a dive bar, surrounded by Carhartt-clad orcs nodding their heads serenely to Heaven Schmitt's demented, hooky songs.⁠ ⁠ Affection for turn-of-the-millenium mall pop produced by the Matrix is spread across the project — "Crush" is an especially effective vivisection of these tropes, its guitars glowing as Grumpy details a MSN Messenger-era romance complete with mall visits and screen name requests. This being a Grumpy project, things are never a straight line: the desolate folk ballad "Knot" documents interpersonal breakdown, its reverbed production making every shuffle sound like a storm.⁠ ⁠ Today, Grumpy's dropping a music video for their new song "Bird Parts" featuring ex-Girlpool member ha...