Another post, another record I couldn't scrounge the cover of. The only good thing about school beginning in scant few days is the revival of my scanner access.
So, this one's a fucking classic. I checked it out about two years ago based on a random recommendation. For whatever reason, they're positively lining used bins - probably because there are thousands of copies. Whatever, its availability does not detract from its brutality. At times it can be awkwardly dated - the nineties were a very confusing time for backing vocalists in hardcore, but it mostly takes the most compelling elements of DIY hardcore from this period and consolidates them on a single slab. It's ugly but almost catchy in it's strange reliance on traditional song structures.
The title and cover shot of a person in mid-leap off a very tall building about sum up the lyrical content. The musical ugliness and menace is matched only by the vocal venom with which lines like "every day that I don't eat the gun, I won! I won!" are spat. Bob Suren, the man behind the venerable but deceased Burrito Records, is the vocal abuser in this band, and gives it everything he can muster, which is surprisingly versatile.
Even considering the closing epic banger, the entire affairs totals in at seven songs in eight minutes. If you don't like it, I didn't take much of your time. Just download it.
While we're at it, here's an added download of their indispensable compilation track "Pure Entertainment".
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I don't think I have this one; I've got the Failure Face split with Ulcer (which I think came out the year before), and I remember the Failure Face side as being pretty intense. It's been over a decade since I've listened to it, though.
ReplyDeleteI use to write back and forth with Bob Suren for a bit back in the 90's (when people still wrote letters). I remember him saying that he sometimes recorded his vocals a couple of lines at a time-- doing them in a couple of takes where he'd alternate every few lines or so-- so that he wouldn't be losing his breath by the end of each verse. When I went back and listened again, it was easier to pick out what he was doing (and made it harder to listen to, actually).
I think that's way more noticeable on the split with Ulcer than on this material, but yeah, I think that it's a little too evident.
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