My initial thoughts went something like this: Screamo kids playing psychotically happy pop-punk.

The EP LP is exceptionally quick. It’s an LP, I guess, in that it feels like a whole thing, but it’s an EP in that there’s not enough music there to fill up a 12″. It’s raucous, so other people will call it garage, but that’s a red herring. Sure it’s loud, but when are pop-punk records ever mixed/mastered quiet? BEST PRACTICES sound like dudes who have DESCENDENTS and ORCHID records in their… wait. Will Killingsworth recorded this? Oh. Okay. That makes sense.

I’m holding onto RIYLs, as if that will help me. Look, apparently, the vocalist was in LIGHT THE FUSE AND RUN. And I like LIGHT THE FUSE AND RUN. So. Dude’s writing songs with the speed and terseness of JOYCE MANOR. There’s 9 of ‘em. It’s over in 12 minutes. It sounds exactly what you’d expect from that. BEST PRACTICES is firmly in the new/fast/short/deranged realm of punk bands, but with an undercurrent of screamo energy, like all of the effort was poured into being silly and fun as opposed to posing serious and dramatic.

Put simply, BEST PRACTICES makes a joyous clamor.