Pennsylvania is home to one of the biggest alternative music scenes in the U.S.—and if we're going to talk about Philly shoegaze, this is the place to start.

Five years after Murmur, Doused returns with SCKRPNCH—a sharper, more aggressive evolution of their signature sound. Tape Wounds sat down with Mike Wolfe to discuss the "Philly shoegaze" label, why the genre has become a "four-letter word," and the band's refreshingly ambition-less approach to creating art.