17 November 2009

FALSE SECURITY

I was tempted to fuck with the band's song order and start of this tape with the second track, "Blockaded," because it has one of the best guitar intros ever...so simple, and so perfect.  But I can't justify distorting someone else's vision, so you get the tracks in their intended sequence, and prepare to have your face pummeled by FALSE SECURITY, a short lived hardcore band from Brooklyn.  The hollow menacing bass intro to "Closed Circle" brings to mind NEGATIVE APPROACH more than any of the dozens of bands who've tried to make a career based on aping Detroit's finest, and the frantic vocals in "Their Dark Places" sound frightened and urgent.  Hollow, menacing, frightened, urgent...all adjectives that should be used to describe hardcore.  Think midwest hardcore, think 80s rust belt depression, and that's the feeling that FALSE SECURITY dish out...well written and well delivered songs that never made it to vinyl.

4 comments:

living in the 80s said...

hi, you are doing a really nice work on this blog, awesome tapes and rare stuff, really cool... do you have the "Hmmm... tape comp.". or maybe something of 4 minute warning from U.K. please?

cheers!!

the wizard said...

thanks for the kind words...
no "Hmmmmm..." but I've got a 4 MINUTE WARNING demo that I would be happy to post in the next week or so. Got another tape by FOUR MINUTES as well, in case you are just obsessed with the number 4.
cheers===

living in the 80s said...

hahaha thank you very much, ill be waiting

cheers

Anonymous said...

Hey Robert, I just noticed (a year and a half later) that you posted this tape of my old band. Thanx! xo, golnar.