Indebted to no wave and post-punk, and named for one of noir novelist Jim Thompson's bleakest tales, Brooklyn's Pop. 1280 was started by Chris Bug and Ivan Lip in 2009. Their first single, a creepy song about the bedbug epidemic in New York, set the stage for their follow-up EP, The Grid. Sacred Bones signed the band, and Bug and Lip expanded the group with bassist Pascal Ludet and drummer Zach Ziemann of Twin Stumps. Three months later, after an East Coast tour, Pop. 1280 returned to the studio to record their full-length debut, The Horror, which was released in early 2012. F...