Tim Darcy of Ought performs at the Teragram Ballroom in Los Angeles on March 19, 2018. Photo: Kyle J. Kohner. We’ve almost arrived, everyone! However, if you are just joining us, do not spoil the surprise for yourself and just go back to parts one, two and three to catch up before…

  Courtesy: Jenna Ledger A number of musicians continue to reap the benefits of Mark E. Smith‘s politically charged and disillusioned post-punk, borrowing The Fall frontman’s themes  of alienation in the digital age. But Ought takes the influence of Smith, who died in January at 60, to new lyrical and sonic heights. Ought…

Over the course of seven years, the Tim Darcy-led Montreal quartet Ought cemented itself within the top tier of the recent wave of contemporary post-punk. It succeeded in unearthing beauty and comfort with a suburban lifestyle and all of its mundanities with its first two albums, More Than Any Other Day and Sun Coming…