American Culture

American Culture is an indie band led by singer-guitarist Chris Adolph, with a tendency to move across genre and style boundaries without staying put in one spot for long. In broad strokes, their music is a loose combination of garage, psychedelic, and jangly pop, played with a lo-fi approach and a strict DIY attitude. That said, one can hear bluesy overtones or snippets of dub or krautrock style tones in individual songs. Pretty much anything that feels raw and gritty, at times even grimy, eventually finds its way into their work. Their sonic palette and stylistic elasticity echoes the underground scene of the early days of modern rock, with all the scrappy creativity, sense of spontaneity, and healthy skepticism about genre norms one associates with that period.