Gutsy rock & roll from this Brooklyn group bursting with hot-rodding riffs and snarling vocals, hearkening back to classic dark punk. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 24, 2023
Dead Cross, Retox, and Qui members dish out subversive hardcore with an indignant smirk; come for the riffs, stay for the synth experiments. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 31, 2024
Knockout debut from a Buffalo, New York-based hardcore band who like their riffs sick, their drums fast, and their choruses sticky-sweet. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 28, 2024
What a lot of hardcore bands forget is that trafficking only in vitriol, rage and protest misses the point. You need music that elevates it all beyond noise and into the realm of anthems. Fucked Up manage to do that about three times in every song, while teasing out much gentler strains of sound throughout. If I were a youngster back when this came out I probably would've moved to Canada. The only band who did it better was Husker Du, who also managed to transcend the limitations of the form. brooklynboy