MOPE CITY - Petri Dish LP power pop was always meant to have:

was always meant to have: an album that now without question earns its place among the rest of the band's powerful discography

Country sound

The Jesus and Mary Chain went full rock n' roll on Automatic

their shop became the hangout for the local punk movement

"Sixteen Saltines" is driven by a heavy guitar hook

MOPE CITY - Petri Dish LP power pop was always meant to have:Mope Citys Petri Dish exists in the overlap between the mundane and the mythic; that odd place where the ordinary bloats and transforms into something wholly unreal. Harmonies jostle for space; vocals get wrapped in reverb; pop choruses drown in fast acting distortion.