Mixtape 295 • Stealth Rollback
Unusual tactics and disruptive strategies make for some fine sounds from Courting.
Unusual tactics and disruptive strategies make for some fine sounds from Courting.
It’s inevitable — I hate it, but it happens every few years. I’ll forget my headphones at home and have to use the station’s pair. The show must continue. And here is The Sonic Dawn to kick it off in style with some of that hard-hitting punchy punch rolling mayhem thing they do.
Imagine a heavy punk-core assault, one with a bad attitude, weird experimental asides, an unhinged vocalist, and a rhythm section suitable for pulverizing concrete. How do you take it to the next level? Add a saxophone.
Did Jeff Rosenstock manage to find an unrecorded Ramones song? "Beating My Head Against A Wall" sure sounds like it, and that is 1,000% a compliment.
Cleary, this is something that needs a song to explain, and Mo Kenney is up to the task.
Classic LA hardcore served up in a blaze. An aggressive release from an aggressive band.