Imagine- you’re at a party and a familiar face walks through the door. You attempt to place where you know them from as they wave at a few people. Before you can figure out why you recognize them, they vanish into thin air. That’s how drummer Hayden Bosch would define his band’s music. “I would describe the band as like, the dude who shows up at the party and everyone kind of recognizes and he waves and then he vanishes and then he pops up a few months later. I think that just comes from, it shows in the music too just having a bunch of different pieces to it,” Bosch said.

The band in question, Antibroth, has been a staple of the University of Denver music scene in recent years. Since their formation three years ago, the band has released an EP and a handful of singles in addition to playing gigs all around Denver. This Friday the band is taking things to the next level with the release of their debut album “Antibroth.”

With their off-the-dial vocals and racing tempos, Antibroth clearly draws from the punk genre. But upon further listening, as you fall deeper down the rabbit hole, the complexity in their music shines through. Mastermind behind the project, lead singer and guitarist Jeremy Mock, explained how the band has always been a place for experimentation, which is reflected in the album.

“How we’ve written has changed a lot, but how we are now and how I’d like to keep doing things is… we just kind of start playing and… we kind of just let each other do whatever the hell we want, there’s not really a leader of anything. We each pull it in other directions and it turns into something,” Mock said. The album, as Mock and his other bandmates explained, stays true to the cacophonic mesh of noise that’s expected from the band, but is also a cohesive project that showcases what the band is capable of.

Similar to their past releases, the band’s debut album is a blend of genres and sounds that make up an end product overflowing with raw energy. The band described the process as free flowing, going with what called to them as they were writing and recording the album. “We all have very different backgrounds of how we learned music and what we play or do on our instruments, but the way we collaborate is very similar, like there’s no stepping on someone’s toes, there’s no real judgment if somebody is doing something that’s weird, because that’s kind of the goal is to experiment,” Bosch said.

The band will be promoting the release of their album with a show at Skylark Lounge this Friday. As for the future of the band, bassist Dan Switalski said, “While again the people who are doing what we’re doing may not explode in this huge way, or reach traditional success only through that, I think there’s a lot of good things that can happen when we do put that effort in regardless. I think that we all agree that we do want to tour one day, like we do want to put our name in as many places as we can.”

Listen to Antibroth’s debut album and hear the song live at their show this Friday. Follow them on social media for updates.