Head Automatica – Decadence (CD)

Head Automatica was Daryl Palumbo's early-2000s pivot from the crushing hardcore of Glassjaw into something far more indulgent and dance-floor ready, with producer Dan the Automator bringing his downtown New York cool to the project. *Decadence*, the 2004 debut, split the difference between new wave nostalgia and hip-hop production sensibility in ways that felt genuinely strange for the post-hardcore world Palumbo came from. This Omnivore deluxe edition is the kind of second look a cult record earns when the audience finally catches up.