Naff Canada Vinyl & CDs

Review: 'Nothingburger' finds LA's Car Culture aka Daniel Fisher take slow left turn, from his sample-heavy origins and into grainier, soft-shouldered terrain. This tight two-tracker folds in contributions from Montreal's Patrick Holland and Francis Latreille, with Hotline TNT lending their scorched-pop sensibility to the title cut and Purelink reshaping 'Coping Mechanism' into a slow-motion dissolve. Both versions push the material into denser, more unstable ground, where live instrumentation blurs into murk and feeling overrides form.