And thus, I complete my own Twelve Hour Turn and now possess all of the 7″ singles they have appeared on to date. My lingering obsession will have to focus on the full length that none of my favoured US distros (i.e. ones greedy enough to accept my wilting credit card) have been kind enough to get into stock yet.
Two songs from the Turn here, and it’s more of the delightfully bruising emotional hardcore that they are so prone too. This is a little heavier than some of their soul scraping classics (“Pennyloafer”, “An Optional”) but it still has the desired effect. They are masters of the “emo groove” (having chunky riffs that you can’t help rock back and forth too), much like Yaphet Kotto, and liberally sprinkle their tunes with some piercing shreiking and crying. Just for a change they have some heart wrenching lyrics, this time about a disabled relation, and the more emo standard topic of loss in “He’d Rather Not Watch”. The former is dynamite, the latter more erratic and unpredictable. On the whole the track is jagged and knifing, then it slides into the calmness of the ending twinklefest. Ooo.
Ian gave the Strikeforce Diablo CDEP he picked up a while back a stinker of a review. I think I might have to steal it off him, as the 4 songs I now have by them are generally damn fine. They make a good fit for this record, with scratchy shouted vocals over a similarily heavy emo hardcore soundtrack that strikes the groove. I’d suggest they were like a slower Small Brown Bike here. “Akimbo” is great, “That Touch” is ok, and better when it gets faster.