Vancouver’s squall-punk rock trio expands on the basement snarl of 2014’s Deep Fantasy with confessional conflagration. Their bleeding-ear, arena-ready punk production bangs no small amount of unsuspected grace: “I will give birth in a trailer/ Huffing the gas in the air/ Baby is born in molasses/ Like I would even care,” howls Mish Way on single “Kiss Me When I Bleed.” Backed by Ken William’s incendiary guitar and Anne-Marie Vassilou’s crack o’ doom beats, Paradise is – like the acute respiratory distress syndrome they’re named for – breathtaking and terrifying in equal measure. (Sun., 8:15pm, the Keep stage)

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This article appears in November 4 • 2016.

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