Punk Rockers the T-Tops Are ‘Staring at a Static Screen’ Listeners are treated to 12 high-octane songs straddling the ill-defined spaces between punk, post-hardcore, and noise-rock on T-Tops’ Staring at a Static Screen. Staring at a Static Screen T-Tops 28 May 2021 Few records this month or maybe even this year will reach the vintage of their street dates as locked and loaded as T-Tops’ Staring at a Static Screen. Coming nearly six years after the band’s eponymous and almost too good to be true full-length debut – and following a string of line-up changes and short-form releases – expectations have been monstrous for this one. And T-Tops meet the moment not with grace but with unabashed fury: a 12-song set whose crunching riffs, pounding refrains, and roared vocals will acne your skin with blisters. Has it really been six years? Don’t tell these guys; they haven’t missed a beat.