On the Floor – The Men at Sacred Bones 10 Year Anniversary

The Men are an experimental rock band from Brooklyn who have released eight albums largely on the Sacred Bones label since forming in 2010, the most recent being 2016’s *Devil Music*, on their own We Are The Men Records. Their second album, *Leave Home*, saw the band give a jolt to the spine of the contemporary indie rock scene in New York – forging post-hardcore, noise, metal, shoegaze and psychedelic rock sounds together with caustic antagonism. Often considered an artful grouping, using analog recording techniques and giving a collective side-eye to rock & roll convention, The Men gained a cult following in the late ’00s, who have followed them through surprising stylistic turns – from the grit of their early releases to the more pop-leaning college-rock tropes of the late 2010s, and then to the psych-punk abandon of *Devil’s Music*.