You ever feel like following punk and hardcore is like constantly playing catch up? No matter how hard you might try to keep a finger on the pulse, you've got to keep one eye trained on your rear view mirror scanning for the nuggets that you missed on the first pass....and you're never going to scoop it all up. This 2013 demo from Boston hits me the same way Chicago's COLD LOVERS did the first time I heard them - raw, furious, honest power. BAD IDEA is decidedly more straight forward hardcore, but the general approach and impact are similar and these women go for the gut right out of the gate with the low end rumble of "Crook," especially as they roll out of the first chorus and prepare you for the first weird breakdown. I say "weird" because it should be a typical activate-the-pit moment, but instead of going four on the floor, the beat just disappears...and the effect sets the vibe for the rest of the demo. I want a band to not do what I want them to do, and that's what BAD IDEA (don't) do - the riffs are loose, the vocal delivery is intense but always just off the beat in a casually lazy way, and it just feels real. So don't take your eye off of the past, even (especially) the recent past, because you might have been so busy scanning for the last best thing you might have missed that you might have missed it when it was the next best thing the first time.
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