So Pitted - cat scratch

What this video is

So Pitted emerged from Seattle's DIY underground scene circa 2010, signing to Sub Pop for their debut LP neo (February 19, 2016). The trio — Nathan Rodriguez, Liam Downey, and Jeannine Koewler — developed an atonal, extremely loud noise-punk sound that critics positioned within a lineage from Black Flag and Nirvana through to contemporaries like METZ. 'cat scratch' opens neo and establishes the record's sonic…

Why it matters

Represents the 2010s neo-grunge/noise-punk underground at a key Sub Pop inflection point — a label historically synonymous with the original Pacific Northwest grunge explosion now repositioning that DNA through a new generation. The 'cat scratch' video's extreme lo-fi visual register functions as…