Music Review // Together Pangea "Eat Myself" (Nettwerk)

https://togetherpangea.bandcamp.com/album/eat-myself

There exists a large amount of rock music from the year 2000 onward that has these vibes where they should be on the radio but aren't.  And it's not that someone else is on the radio in their place, but rather the idea that there just isn't this type of rock music on the radio any more when there once was or maybe what came after grunge should have evolved into this.  Together Pangea is fuzzy, yet melodic in their delivery of a heavy rock sound which can remind me of artists such as Silverchair, Nirvana and Cloud Nothings.  It gets me pumped.

A song such as "Like Your Father" is less fuzzy but is still punk.   Artists from Trail of Dead to The Strokes can come ti mind on this album.  There is just a deliberately chaotic way about this, but that can also be found in the lyrics.  On "Halloween" there is a line I really like that says: "I wish this anger was sadness instead / I'd be a poet and already dead"  It gives you a lot to think about, especially if you've ever wanted to be a poet.  "Deep End" is just a genuinely pretty song, while we mellow out a bit on "Purple".  The loudness returns for "Sunkin" though.  

Perhaps what makes "Eat Myself" such a great album is that I can hear bits of Marcy Playground on the song "Empty Church", tying this to the past while also pushing it towards the future.  I feel as if this could be the most accessible rock album of January 2026, in the sense that if you play it for those kids who grew up on Nirvana they're going to love it.   At the same time, "Molly Said" is pretty heavy and that might not exactly get onto the radio, so maybe it just feels a bit more like something in between those two things, but what a place to be.