Dead, but great.

This is the first sentence of the NPR article that goes along with a fullstream of Hirs fantastic new album “Friends.Lovers.Favorites”; “The HIRS Collective has a unified purpose: to defend, examine and extol the survival of trans and queer outcasts.”

Fuck yeah

Besides being amazing and actually having something to say, they never stop working. They have a ton of releases, including 2 collection records called “The First 100 Songs,” and “The second 100 Songs.”

A friend described the album this song is from (Millennials) as “Heavy, frantic. Recorded live to tape. Inaccessible.” To which I replied, “you had me at inaccessible.” 

Considering some of the nonesense I listen (I once described an album as sounding exactly like my infant son’s fire truck toy, and still bought it) I really expected something different than what I herard when I checked out the full album stream at Metal Injectio.

I wouldn’t call it inaccessible or at least not in the way I expected. Frantic sure, but its not some 22 minute noise/drone track with someone banging on a metal radiator with an old shoe that is more college art project than music.

Millennials is pretty firmly rooted in hardcore, the noisier side of things for sure, but still hardcore.

This band has never really done it for me. I never hated them, I just couldn’t make myself care. Then Hostage Animal came out last year. 

Good god.

This thing destroys. They do thrash/crossover, sludge, hardcore, metal and nail it all. It makes me want to go back and take a look at those other albums I didn’t really care about.

Try to talk shit on this, I dare you.  

You can’t, it is fantastic.

What up cuz?

Deforesters aren’t the most original band in the world, but they are good at what they do, taking org-core/ no idea punk and adding some pop-punk on top.

Its catchy as hell.

This isn’t normally my type of thing. I’m not big on 90s throwback stuff. But there is something about this album that rises above 90s grunge worship. It’s a little rougher, some songs even have a touch of noise rock, and her voice is great. 

Sugary sweet with enough edge. The album this song is from, I Swear I’m Good at This, ends up kind of running together, with a lot of stuff sounding too similar.  But there are a few tracks like this one and Sixteen that really stand out as great.

Scream along if you know the words:

“I was playing with matchesNow I sift through the ashesIt’s cold nowThe fire’s outI might never be warm againAnd the rain comes to wash it downWorse to burn than it is to drownLet the cool waterFill my lungsAnd I won’t have to breathe again“

Like I said with the last Iron Chic post, Sad songs about being a fuck-up, feeling like you’re wasting your life, missing people (this album is pretty heavy on missing people) and not giving up, sung like this is the last chance you’ll ever get.

Iron Chic is hands down my favorite band. I can’t say enough good things about them. 

Everything about this is perfect and ridiculous. 

The music style, the silly lyrics/theme the fact that it’s an entire band based on a single Kids In The Hall sketch. 

I bet Eradicator shows are fun as hell.

Holy shit. 

This is amazing.