Crashing Together Enters the Post-Punk Conversation, Five Years After Flock of Indifference's First Two Songs
An American Rock Band Packs Post-Punk Grit and Alt-Rock Melody Into Three Songs
Crashing Together runs three songs in ten minutes and 12 seconds. Each one is shorter than the last: four minutes four, three minutes 28, then two minutes 40. Flock of Indifference, a rock band from Philadelphia, United States, released the EP on 30 October 2024 through Planet Gowanus Records.
Flock of Indifference open Crashing Together with Long Goodbye. That song sits in our Indie Rock, Alt Rock, New Wave playlist below, and the band’s artist profile collects all our coverage. The EP came to this desk through PopHits.Co Music Charts, which verifies independent artists and places their releases across its network of music news titles. Press play on the playlist, then read on for where the EP sits in the catalogue.
Crashing Together by Flock of Indifference Arrived Five Years After the Band’s First Two Songs
The catalogue is short and spaced out. Coming Down and Official Censor came out on 17 November 2019. Then the band waited almost five years for Crashing Together. The next pair, Neighborhood and Apex, followed 16 months later, on 28 February 2026.
The oldest song still leads. Coming Down, a three-minute-43 song from 2019, is the band’s most played track on Spotify, with 3,482 plays. Apex, Long Goodbye, Neighborhood and Green follow it in the Popular list. So the EP holds two of the top five places.
The label line has not moved either. Planet Gowanus Records appears on the 2019 single Hostile Actors, on Crashing Together and on the Neighborhood single from 2026.
What Changed on Crashing Together, From Long Goodbye to Pivotal Incident
Crashing Together is the band’s longest release to date. It is also the clearest statement of where the band sits: between post-punk’s darker side and alt-rock’s reach. Robert Goldsmith and Andrea Sicco wrote the words and music of Long Goodbye, the opener.
That opener sets the method. Long Goodbye starts on a steady, driving groove with jangling guitar on top. It rises and falls back in the way 1990s college rock did. Green slows the pace and builds by adding layers rather than volume. Pivotal Incident, the shortest at two minutes 40, closes on clean guitar lines with plenty of space around the vocals.
So the EP moves from push, to patience, to economy. The 2026 pair then stretches out again. Apex runs four minutes 16, longer than anything on the EP, while Neighborhood lands at three minutes 59.
The Through-Line of Flock of Indifference Runs From Coming Down to Crashing Together and Apex
The band’s own description says it plays short, punchy songs. They are open to several readings, but hard to decipher in the end. The numbers back the first half of that. None of the five songs in its Spotify top list runs past four minutes 16 seconds.
The Big Takeover reviewed the EP in January 2025. Dave Franklin heard something of Buzzcocks in the main riff of Long Goodbye. He named Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve) as the song it recalls. Pete Shelley wrote that song in 1978, and it reached number 12 in the UK. Franklin also picked the closer, Pivotal Incident, as the best of the three.
R.E.M. offer the other half of the lineage. Their debut single, Radio Free Europe, came out in 1981 on the small Hib-Tone label. Its lyrics became famous for being hard to make out. In 2009 the Library of Congress added it to the National Recording Registry. It was cited for breaking through on college radio despite mainstream radio’s indifference. A band that calls its own songs hard to decipher sits comfortably in that line.
Who This EP Is For
The catalogue is still moving, and so is the band. It has about 1,200 followers on Facebook and 313 on Instagram. Its Instagram lists two shows, on 13 November at Black Squirrel and on 14 November at Tuned Up Brewing.
The EP suits listeners and curators of post-punk, indie and alternative rock. It is best for those who like their songs short and their guitars clean. It also suits college radio programmers, the audience R.E.M. first found.
Play it in order and watch the clock: four minutes, then three and a half, then under three.
From the RockCharts.News curator team: “We put Long Goodbye in our alt-rock playlist for the clearest hook on the EP. It opens on that driving groove and never loses it.”
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