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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
Try to talk shit on this, I dare you.
You can’t, it is fantastic.
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.
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.
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.
What up cuz?
