Experimental-noise rockers Credentials are finally out with their long-anticipated debut album today. Incorporating elements of post-rock and math rock, the band culminates everything they’ve developed since their conception in late 2018 up to now, resulting in an marvelous exhibition of meticulous noisescapes. It’s apocalyptic yet viscerally poetic with Sevan Arabaijan-Lawson’s alternation between spoken word and haunting vocals in addition to dissonant riffage, frequent and frenzied shifts in melody, pounding polyrhythms, and unpredictable structural decisions. This record is particularly resonant relative to the re-definitions in many of our lives right now; Credentials deliver one of the most hauntingly elegant and uncompromising albums of the year.