After exhuming skeletal grooves of pristine noise during the first iteration of shape-shifting weirdo outfit THESE ARE POWERS (Hoss, Dead Oceans, RVNG Intl.), singer TED MCGRATH ventured out on his own, surviving on the expected trials and unlikely fringe benefits of the so-called "solo artist." The Brooklyn-based painter and musician has since used his modest but ample survey of pedals, drum machines, and ephemeral fuckery to issue brief but potent sketches of the American underground, signal flares, warning shots.