I read this interview with Pat Kindlon of End Of a Year where he mentioned how Deathwish Inc let them to be as weird as they wanted to be. This is totally true. I’m sure Tre gives them a super long leash, and it probably has weird spikes and amulets hanging off of it. But it has worked out successfully for them because this album is a banger. I don’t know how they did it, but the band somehow managed to modernize the greatest sounds of mid 90s Western Mass hardcore. Think Dive and Bound (yes, Winchendon is so far north in Massachusetts that it is actually part of Western Mass. You know it’s true. Then again, Albany is just west Western Mass, right? Just kidding, jeesh). Like Sebadoh meets Motorhead meets Sonic Youth’s Dirty. It’s on a whole other level. Pat’s vocals skitter the line of yelling and talking. It’s almost so un-hardcore that’s it only hardcore. You know what I mean? Like it’s so right of right that it’s left. Yeah, like that. And the music bangs. You probably won’t catch people finger pointing, but I can see plenty of sing alongs and thrashing. If this band tours with Lion Of Judah and Give, the venues will erupt in weird metal mosh freak outs. It would be a sight to see, this is certain.
I strongly suggest you go pick up this record. Run, don’t walk over to Deathwish Inc. Great label, great dudes. Hook it up. And if that isn’t enough to wet your whistle, head over to Ebay to pick up that merch you slept on all these years.