Labels: Witching Hour
Review by: Andy Malcolm
Usurp are back with yet another record. The kids go crazy for all their sold out releases, god knows why. Yes, they are all worth getting, but the kind of prices the out of press ones go for on Skylab is baffling. It’s not like a few quickfire songs where the screamer goes “Nyrggggh Nyrghhhhhhh” whilst the band play the raucous OrchidofMancore is horrifically original. Chuck in the occasional emo twinkle part, some emo-violence drum blasts, and Jeromes Dream style samples, such as the hissing static of a badly tuned radio station picking up something in Spanish, and a robot talking (ooh, genre cliche). They have a song called “I Was Born With A Hard On”. Overall, it’s just fucking screamo. Good thing I love screamo and that they are rather decent at doing this shit.
Index for Potential Suicide have keyboards. THE LOCUST! Hey, wait up, I only listened to the first couple of seconds so far, they don’t sound nothing like the Locust. Kicks off with keyboards and some blippy electronic effects, cool start. Wait up, that stuff finished, and now they are playing fast. Hey, is this stuff on 45 or 33? Both sound ok, though 33 sounds more correct. So actually, they are not playing so fast. First song is heavy, grindin’, metallic screamo with a sludgey metal breakdown to do your dancin’ too. They have samples too, and the sample confirms it’s supposed to be on 33rpm. The second song is powerful and hard hittin’. I think these guys are a touch too metal for my liking, at least till it all gets out of control and chaotic at the end. And they forgot to use their keyboards at any point other than the intro to their side of the record. Shame.
Reasonable split. Usurp have better stuff, IFPS I prefer on their album.