This is sort of just by the numbers hardcore with a female singer, but it rips. Holler, the ep that this song and three others are from was one of my favorite releases of 2018.

The album is called “Schmaltz,” and dear lord is it, but I love it.

One of my favorite albums of 2018.

This song has been stuck in my head for the last 4 months.

“I can’t keep doing all this dumb shit no more.”

I saw Sundowner like 5 or 6 years ago on the Revival Tour. It didn’t do it for me. To the piont that I fully wrote it/him off, despite being 1/3 of the Lawrence Arms (a band I like but don’t worship like so many seem to), and being the lead on my favorite Lawrence Arms songs. 

Some how Neon Fiction ended up on some Spotify playlist or something and it just grabbed me. I listened to it a lot, but as it often happens with basically infinite music to listen to, I kind of forgot about it.

My mom actually bought me a copy of Neon Fiction for my birthday last week, and I’ve been revisiting it. Still great.

That slow pretty ambient drone.

Made entirely with a electric guitar, and a Juno 2.

I should hate everything about this. Growled hardcore with double bass and predictable mosh parts performed by a bunch of muscled and tattooed hardcore jocks. Look at this asshole. The picture up there is the only one I could find with the singer wearing a shirt. Ugh. I bet there are so many spin kicks at their shows.

Trash.

But it's doing it for me right now.

I hate myself.

Dumb Days, is easily one of my top albums of last year. Like the Bully album from last year, this 90s throw-back-ish stuff isn’t usually my thing. But something about this does it for me. Super catchy with some pop-punk thrown in.

Get wild and a little weird (but ignore the singing parts).

I’m going to be honest here, I wrote this band off for years without ever listening to them. In my head they sounded like Chixdiggit and had a name like the Queers. I have zero idea where this theory came from.

I’m dumb.

This crushes.

I think part of the reason I overlooked this band during their brief run, was that musically its not anything amazing or even that original. Just dirty raw punk.

However, it is a cut above a lot of the bands that have a similar sound. Its also hard to argue against their message or for giving a voice (and an angry one at that) to a marginalized group, especially in a subculture that is not always as welcoming as it claims.

The first 5 minutes and 15 seconds of this are fantastic, then it loses me until the 12 minute mark. But at 15 total minutes, this is tough listen.

But those first 5 minutes.

Moody noise rock or the slow parts of Young Widows songs turned up and cut off before they get repetitive. 

Their new album Place Noire just came out and is definitely worth your time.