What Is Success

Open Head is a 4-piece experimental ensemble from Kingston, New York. With a taste for the concrete and the spectral, their new album What Is Success sources beauty in brutalist architecture, holography, and the remnants of industrialism that ornament the Hudson Valley landscape. The result is expansive, stratospheric in volume, and brutally material in its punctuation and delivery. Drawing on New York no-wave and the avant-garde history of punk, noise, hip-hop, and electronic music, Open Head presents a sound that is itself a landscape—immediate, colossal, ruined, and essential. 

Released: January 2025
Cat: WCR152LPC1
Label: Wharf Cat Records