Freedom-
Pay The Price 7” review
I’ll just get this out of the way
right now, even though the band members might not be so keen on this
description- this is Face Reality, part II.
Not the same band, but merely a continuation of the direction they were headed
in when they had their untimely end.
That being said, it IS an evolution as much as it is a
continuation. This mixes the likes of
classic hardcore punk a la Negative Approach, Straight Ahead, Blitz, etc. with
mid-late 80s-style NYHC, and the only thing that can never be faked in a band,
urban fucking grit. “Blank Stare” also
lifts a line from the Sly Stallone movie Cobra, a nice touch. “I Refuse” has a vibe of man-versus-society,
or rather, a narrative, something lacking in a lot of modern hardcore- too
often, it is rife with songs about other individuals (not that they’re lacking
here), a man-versus-man narrative that need not be as pervasive as it is.
This EP has everything you could
want in a hardcore record- it’s fucking pissed, you can sing along, you can
mosh, you can toe-tap, you can bang your head; if you like hardcore punk,
you’ll like this. The vocals could be a
smidge louder, but apart from that, this is a classic hardcore EP for the
modern age. They have evolved greatly,
and I’m proud to have been even a small part of it.
-Aunty Social
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