Sympathy Flowers is Oakland's latest dark punk darlings - rising stars of the post-punk underworld with their gritty anarcho sensibilities, undeniable melodic riffs and metallic vocals from Gina Marie of Adrenochrome and Otzi fame. The band's first LP - Dreams of a Lurking Fear - is longawaited and brags the easy tendency to fly off California's record store shelves as the band tours and stuns club stages with their electric, sultry, danceable and intelligible live performances. Ten tracks in the album explores themes of the timelessness of darkness, introspection and mortality, with lyrical prose that rhyme as persistent as their rhythm section. Sympathy Flowers exudes all the best and bright (dark?) qualities for their canonical status in the charts of instant punk classics from the West Coast. This is a most pleasurable album from a band that cannot, and will not, be ignored. First pressing of their debut comes on hand-numbered vinyl, and limited editions of 500 copies - divided to 250 copies on two variants of colored vinyl (red/black/clear and black/white) and inclusive of a silk-screened poster.