Prop House - Epoxy [EP]

Hot on the heels of this year’s SPRUE and VECTOR, New Jersey’s PROP HOUSE return with EPOXY, the final installment in their introductory trilogy of EPs on Mint 400 Records. Across three volatile tracks, the band fuses snarling garage rock and post-punk riffs with a ferocious post-hardcore urgency. Lyrically, the EP surveys the present moment of imperial decay and stochastic violence, meeting it with sardonic wit and a soundtrack that feels made for throwing your shoulder against a riot shield.

The journey began with SPRUE, a three-song debut steeped in themes of alien abduction, betrayal, and hidden forms of loss. That release introduced listeners to Prop House’s grimly imaginative world, pairing Rudy Meier’s production with Ian Beattie’s raw vocal presence and aesthetic design. Its follow-up, VECTOR, deepened the band’s scope, trading in stories of missing friends, uneven battles with authority, and the inertia of everyday repetition—all carried on a more finely tuned collision of post-punk, hardcore, and noise rock. Together, those records set the foundation for the band’s restless vision.

On EPOXY, the quintet—Rudy Meier (Bristler, Yawn Mower, Scumming, Tide Bends), Eric James Guy Friedman (Earth Telephone), and Biff Swenson (Yawn Mower, Grasser, Bristler, Dana Why, Scumming, Earth Telephone), fronted by vocalist Ian Beattie (The Mischief Kids)—push that vision to its sharpest edge yet. Beattie’s voice, a gravel-throated mix of Ian MacKaye grit and ‘90s punk bite, cuts across Meier’s production like a blade, while his design work provides the visual counterpart to the music’s confrontational tone. With EPOXY, Prop House not only completes its opening trilogy but also cements itself as one of the most uncompromising voices to rise from New Jersey’s underground.