An interview with French heavy shoegaze band Mascara on their debut album Going Postal, touring, anti-fascist politics, and making art in a burning world.

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.