27 June 2020

COORDINATED SUICIDES


I'm just going to go ahead and say what I thought the first time I heard this tape. I thought: "This sounds like TORCHE and ECONOCHRIST." It's heavy like now (more accurately, it's heavy like the '00s), and it swings like the DIY '90s, and that's a swing that I totally miss. And COORDINATED SUICIDES are fukkn intense, an honest intensity that I also miss, even (or especially) when they fall into more modern sounding dark punk on tracks like "Lychee" and "Hiding" which run back to back near the end of this 2015 tape. The guitars are powerful and piercing no matter where they are aimed, and the whole band hits hard throughout...simply put: they just do a really good job. 


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