Labels: coalition
Review by: Alex Deller
Starts with a flurry or rabbit-punches, a nearly three minutes of hurtling melodic hardcore that promises maybe a little too much. Second track slackens the pace and lends itself to a nonchalant hit of the “skip’ button. This record is kinda like that. Bursts of decent noise that’ll make you think of J.R Ewing, death-throes Refused or Fireside before they dropped that clanger of an album on Crank! or, if you insist on hearing names dropped from across the pond then I guess it wouldn’t hurt to mention Transistor Transistor or Light The Fuse And Run. And then you have the troughs where the momentum is broken and things border on the point of sucking. Ah well.
Clean, crisp and punchy. There’s a lot of interesting guitar noodling going on, little squiggly melodies that dart confidently around the fretboard that do a good job of holding my attention. The vocals are yelled but not so much so that things are incomprehensible. Sometimes rocking like crazy, sometimes only just the right side of mediocre. And, to be frank, sometimes a touch too slick and glossy for it’s own good. Because from time to time you should be getting grit stuck between your teeth when you listen to a record, just to remind you that the thing is real. And in the swoosh and whoosh of it all sometimes you can almost forget these things.