The seemingly halcyon ’90s are sounding better than ever in 2025 — Fugazi-fathered hardcore, Liz Phair feminist-pop plainspeak, and in the able hands of Hotline TNT, steaming slabs of guitar noise, Dinosaur Jr. via Teenage Fanclub circa “Everything Flows” buoyed by oceanic waves of Cocteau Twins modulations. It’s enough to make you miss the first Bush administration.
Will Anderson — born in 1989, the year Bush was sworn in — was but a tiny hood rat coming up in Minnesota’s Twin Cities then, but he caught the sonic vibe. And he’s got that low-key wistful Midwestern thing in his music, with a profound tunefulness: His folks raised him on harmony-rich Jayhawks LPs, and you know he listened hard to Hüsker Dü’s post-hardcore albums.