Post Pink. Photo by Megan Lloyd.

Local post-punk group Post Pink put out one of the best records of 2016, the brisk eight-song โ€œI Believe You, OK.โ€ Packed with exuberant grooves, skittish guitar riffs and Angie Swiecickiโ€™s raw vocals, โ€œI Believe You, OKโ€ was praised by national sites like Pitchfork and BrooklynVegan and Pitchfork, as well as the now-defunct alt-weekly City Paper.

The group today released โ€œYou Real,โ€ an air-tight track boasting all the aforementioned qualities and a sugary-sweet hook to boot. Listen below. As Stereogum points out, the band just wrapped up some West Coast dates opening for the Breeders, which likely (hopefully) means weโ€™ll be hearing a lot more from Post Pink in 2018.

Brandon Weigel is the managing editor of Baltimore Fishbowl. A graduate of the University of Maryland, he has been published in The Washington Post, The Sun, Baltimore Magazine, Urbanite, The Baltimore...