Friday Five highlights music by Washtenaw County-associated artists and labels.

This edition features prog-post-noise rock by Lunch, electro-screamo by Oblivion Heirs, emo-indie by Fawn, dark electronics by Model No. 1021999, and live jams by Chirp.

Lunch, Dinner
WCBN-FM's co-music director Nicolette Lukibanova (guitar) and Collin Scott Williams (drums) are putting Lunch back in the fridge due to the members moving on from the area, but the music on the duo's final album, Dinner, is a tasty treat. (I hate myself for writing most of that previous sentence.) Lunch's earliest music leaned into noise, but you could tell Lukibanova could shred a little more on guitar than she was letting on, and Dinner shows her chops in a cleaner setting. The music is still skronky, weird, and humorous throughout these seven songs, but there are also moments of calm and respite amid all the spicy cooking. (Showing myself out.)

Oblivion Heirs, "Modem" b/w "Clubnoxious"
Two more songs of electro-screamo wildness by this Ann Arbor duo. Punk with 'puters.

Fawn, Fawn EP
Fawn is an anonymous Ann Arbor project whose debut EP might be a practice tape, but there's promise under the hiss. The first two songs are fuzzy Midwest emo-pop, "One More Mile" is a busy acoustic tune, and the recording concludes with a cover of Adrianne Lenker's "Anything."

Model No. 1021999, Malign Model No. 10
This Ypsi act's Bandcamp page has an ominous bio: "We are always consuming you." I definitely felt emotionally devoured after listening to Malign Model No. 10, which is 12 songs of dark electronic music that touches on everything from drum 'n' bass and ambient dub to industrial noise and Dada-esque noise. (I kept thinking, "Kevin Martin would like this.") Model No. 1021999 describes the album as "DEATH SKULL SKELETON EVIL DEVIL MUSIC FOR MURDER !!!! >:)" and that seems fair.

Chirp, Live in 2023, Vol. 1
Ypsi's Chirp, one of the tightest jam-leaning bands in the area, picked a selection of live recordings from 2023. Live in 2023, Vol. 1 acts like a greatest hits comp with some extra panache as the band flexes on 10 songs you might know from their studio versions.

Christopher Porter is a library technician and the editor of Pulp.