The first single from Joonas Holmén + The Lossy Codecs’ upcoming third album You Modern Folk, Us Backward Men is a wailing beast. It explores the tension between a world accelerating at break-neck speed and the individual—the human being who hasn’t really changed since time immemorial—and voices its anguish through violent, distorted guitars and squealing feedback. Hauntingly beautiful in its brutality, the dynamic track ultimately reaches its bittersweet end: “I would’ve wished you well – but you wouldn’t hear me.”