SOFX - Bedside Rarities - Download (2011)

Labels: self released
Review by: David Giles

Connecticut noisy punk with members of the legitimately horrendous The World is a Beautiful Place & I am No Longer Afraid to Die. It plays out a ton better than a [I’m not writing it again] record “” distorted almost-hardcore with weirdo jamming riffs, all-over-the-place (although not mathy or twiddly “” thank God!) breakouts and build-ups and even a little octave-strumming screamo-in-2006 at times “” which, although usually a nightmare, is sort of welcome here. Nice enough example of the noisy weirdo punk thing that I can’t stop reviewing. Definitely worth a listen although I reckon an LP full of it would send you off the rails. The description that made me check it out is “Drunkdriver covering korn”. Maybe, in the better moments of this demo, that isn’t as tongue in cheek as it was no doubt intended. I say check this out but, given the member’s part played in The Band That Is So Awful That I Am No Longer Afraid To Die, there’s a good chance that this EP is a near-bullseye by a blindfolded idiot. I hope I’m proven wrong about that.