Some people seemed perturbed to discover that Cheekface sound like, well, Cheekface. 0.0Make no mistake, Cheekface are a political band, and especially so on Podium, the group’s sixth album, one that frontman Greg Katz describes as “a Trump 2-era indie rock record” that “grapples with what’s happening in our sick world.” It’s easy to imagine coming across the paranoid banger “Black Site,” which satirizes the use of music as a CIA torture tool (“When they lock me in a black site, here’s the music to put on! On Podium, Cheekface dial up both the hooks and the sociopolitical dread, but absurdist humor remains their defense mechanism for a world spiraling out of control. he bemoans on “Black Site,” but “nothing got better/It only got worse/And now I don’t know where to buy soap!”