Fullscreen’s music doesn’t just play—it unfolds, scene by scene, like a forgotten film reel bathed in flickering light. The Philadelphia-based quartet is rooted in indie rock, but there’s something darker rippling beneath the surface. Cavernous synths, searing guitars, and tectonic shifts in dynamics turn each song into a widescreen composition—intimate one moment, colossal the next. Their latest single, “Avoidance Disorder,” is a slowburning fever dream, a conversation that starts in hushed tones before unraveling into a storm.
The band consists of Harper McGrath (guitar), Eric Scheuler (bass, keys, vocals), Jon Furson (drums), and Kirby Vitek (guitar, vocals). There’s precision in Fullscreen’s work, but it never feels clinical. Their music breathes, swells, contracts—pulling you deeper into its orbit before breaking open in cathartic waves. Comparisons to Slowdive or Wolf Parade feel inevitable, but there’s a shadowy undertow here, something more unsettling, more Lynchian. On “Avoidance Disorder,” spectral melodies hover over a hypnotic pulse, coiling into a chorus that feels like freefall.
When the distortion finally crashes in, it’s less an explosion than a reckoning, the logical endpoint of all that tension simmering beneath the surface.
Fullscreen understands how to play with space. They build their songs like dimly lit rooms, where echoes linger long after a note fades. The guitars bleed into the synths, the drums pulse like a heartbeat—it’s immersive, overwhelming, and impossible to ignore. It’s music that rewards patience, that waits for you to lean in before pulling you under.
Live, the band channels this same sense of atmosphere. A Fullscreen show isn’t just a set—it’s an experience, something that lingers in the bones long after the house lights come up. They don’t just play songs; they conjure them. In a time when so much music is consumed passively, Fullscreen demands something more: your attention, your time, your surrender. With “Avoidance Disorder,” they aren’t just telling a story—they’re making you feel it. And once you’re in, there’s no looking away.
You can catch the band at Kung Fu Necktie in Philly on Thursday March 27th with Brooklyn based Late Again and Parlour Magic.