Labels: self released
Review by: Samuel Fowler
Oooh, these lot are grand. Screw all the hardcore bands which rate
themselves on who’s got the gnarliest beats and the best neck tats,
three hearty cheers instead for Melodic/ Hardcore bands that don’t
wrinkle their foreheads with confusion at the concept of a melody.
Three well deserved cheers.
I can’t find it in my heart not to have a great deal of love a band
that kicks off a demo with the lines “THEY WANT TO TURN YOU INTO A
CREATURE //WITHOUT A PAST WITHOUT A FUTURE” which carries on along the
theme of consumerism. Throw in a song about growing older, and an
anti-cop rant, power ’em up with some Good Riddance influenced glee,
and you got it. Lyrically and thematically One Kind word remind me a
hell of a lot of the Satanic Surfers (they’ll hate me for that), and
like the Surfers they trade off on sincerity and intensity rather than
brute force and aggression. The vocals are quite curious, at times she
drops her pace almost spoken passively, and the variation really adds
an edge and keeps One Kind Word sounding fresh.
Every now and again I wander aimlessly to the dusty heights/depths of
my cd cabinet and end up listening to some long forgotten gem like Fig
4.0 and idly/selfishly wish that current bands would take a cut from
their cloth. Occasionally, like One Kind Word, one of them does, and
the world is better for it.