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Porcelain Tongue is here to talk about loss – the tellingly-titled Goodbye Peggy is their latest offering, a stark title for a hard look at what it means to lose somebody you love. The sophomore release from this Boise-based quartet is a shoegaze-tinged approach that implements significant elements of both emo and straightforward indie rock. Opening track “Support” is archetypal Porcelain Tongue. These dudes have clearly spent many a beer-soaked night in a room with each other – certainly two effective ways to deal with the loss of a loved one (drinking and playing music, that is). Lines like “You say you’re fine, but I know you’re lying” encapsulate these hard-to-talk-about feelings perfectly, while the band wrenches and bends through a number of tempo changes, almost like an irregular, grief-stricken heartbeat. Fuzzed-out bass pushes this one forward, while guitars soar and scream in unison – it’s the perfect way to open an[...]