Weekly Roundup: November 21st
Featuring The Dirty Nil, SPEED, Luca Brasi, and more.
MOSH PITHY:
A curated selection of cool shit for you to listen to.
Luca Brasi – “Party Scene”
Tassie boys Luca Brasi are back with another melodic punk banger, hot on the heels of their Top 10 ARIA charting fifth album, Everything Is Tenuous (2021). The quartet’s latest single is a reflection on party culture, growing older, and in the wise words of frontman Tyler Richardson, contemplating “whether the juice is still worth the squeeze.” Deep stuff. Stay off those nose beers, kids. Watch the video for “Party Scene” below:
Capsule 9 – Take As Prescribed
Delaware has become a real hotbed of new heavy talent of late, and with members doing time in notable local acts like Foreign Hands, it’s no surprise that Capsule 9 would eventually show up on my radar. On their debut six-track EP, Take As Prescribed, the quintet serve up dreamy post-grunge and shoegaze cut through with shades of post-hardcore bite. It’s great stuff, and I’m excited to hear what they can rustle up on a full length. Stream the EP in full here (Bandcamp/Spotify).
The Sound of Animals Fighting – “Apeshit”
It’s been well and truly over a decade since I thought about post-hardcore supergroup The Sound of Animals Fighting, but here we are, folks. The experimental collective have announced the forthcoming release of their Apeshit EP (out December 8th through Born Losers Records), and the project’s title track sounds like Circa Survive running through a jaunty Mars Volta cover in an abandoned jazz lounge. It’s very, very rad. Listen to “Apeshit” here.
All Out War – Celestial Rot
It’s hard to find a more quintessential metallic NYHC album from the late 90s than For Those Who Were Crucified (1998). For that reason alone, veteran bruisers All Out War will always remain as a hardcore touchstone. The group are still kicking, however, and making the most of new influences, with Celestial Rot coming out on February 3rd via Translation Loss Records. If you want something leaning towards the “metallic” edge of metallic hardcore, then this one should get your neck snapping. Stream the LP’s pre-release singles here (Bandcamp/Spotify).
The Dirty Nil – “Bye Bye Big Bear”
I enjoyed the shit out of 2021’s Fuck Art, as much for the title’s directness as the implied entendre, so it pleases me greatly that noisy Ontario rockers The Dirty Nil would come through with something so sentimental and wholesome. “Bye Bye Big Bear” is a teary-eyed farewell to the beloved convenience store of the same name, visible from the second-floor bathroom window of the trio’s old apartment in Hamilton. RIP to a real one. Listen to “Bye Bye Big Bear” here.
Hammock – Love in the Void
I hadn’t heard of Hammock until this week, and considering that the Nashville post-rock duo are working their way up to album #12, it’s clear that I have some catching up to do. Their forthcoming record, Love in the Void, is out on January 27th via Hammock Music through Secretly Distribution and leans towards the cinematic end of the subgenre, embracing elements of ambience, neoclassical, orchestral passages, and glitching electronics. Stream the LP’s pre-release singles here (Bandcamp/Spotify).
SPEED – “One Blood We Bleed”
As I said over at No Echo last week, 2022 has been the Year of SPEED and for good reason. A skull-crushing set at this year’s Sound and Fury festival. TikTok/WorldStar mosh-fuelled infamy. The release of the Gang Called Speed EP. A sold-out national Australian tour. A 20-minute documentary directed by Pablo Barnes in collaboration with Vans. And now, the release of a hard-hitting new single for the fourth volume of Flatpsot Records’ The Extermination showcase (out January 27th). Look, you know what this is. It’s SPEED. It’s the gang. It’s Sydney hardcore. Watch the video for “One Blood We Bleed” below:
Sanguisugabogg – Homicidal Ecstasy
I found out something cool recently. Ohio extreme metallers Sanguisugabogg (pronounced “sang-gwee-sue-guh-bog”) took their name from a portmanteau of the Latin “sanguisuga” (bloodsucker) and the British-slang for a toilet “bogg.” So, essentially, their name means a toilet that sucks blood out of your ass. Neat. The quartet’s new album, Homicidal Ecstasy, arrives on February 3rd via Century Media, and I expect another uncompromising slab of mid-90s death metal and brutal grindcore. Stream the LP’s pre-release singles here (Spotify).
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BROCKHAMPTON – The Family
It’s a sad day, folks. RIP to the best boy band of the 2010s. The Family, the final album from rap/RnB collective BROCKHAMPTON, dropped last week, and it’s a sombre seventeen-track run-through of the group’s forlorn breakup and a laundry list of personal conflicts, member shuffles, and what waits for over the horizon for their respective futures.
It’s a very Kevin Abstract-heavy record and one that can feel a little one-sided at times. However, the band decided to fake out the death knell of their “final” album with another surprise (!) album drop the very next day. Their eighth LP, TM, is a project initially conceived on a writing retreat in 2021 and was executive produced by member Matt Champion. The eleven-track record puts the spotlight on acceptance and moving forward, soundtracked by 2000s RnB instrumentals and samples with great chemistry and flow.
As James Mellen wrote for CLASH: “The Family was the album the band needed, and TM feels like a classic BROCKHAMPTON record. Immaculate production, genre shapeshifting, and some of the cleanest verses from the group in quite some time. There’s no filler on the record either – just eleven tracks of pure BH instant classics.”
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Listen to all these tracks and more on the TPD 2022 TUNES playlist, updated weekly.
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