Come
Out Fighting- Fair Use CD review
A mix of melodic hardcore and
almost-naïve youth crew revival a la Gorilla Biscuits, Mindset, Varsity, and a
slight tinge of Punkcore-era street punk.
Largely well-produced, it’s very clean-sounding, professional, but has a
lot of oomph to the music, mostly in the guitars and vocals, including the gang
vocals. The lyrics, too, have the feel
that 90s bands had- slightly political, unapologetically adolescent, mostly
mid-tempo or traditional punk rock speed, and the occasional stop for
spoken-word pieces from the singer (sort of), one of which stops to talk about,
of all things, fucking soccer, or as they prefer to term it, “European
football”. I have a mild appreciation
for sports, but that’s one I will happily take a pass on. Beyond that annoyance, this is alright, like
if NYHC was better-produced, leaned to the left politically speaking, and had
some melody and more breakdowns. Would
probably have been better served on a 7” with fewer songs, but given that it’s
not, it’s worth maybe a listen or two.
-Aunty Social
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