Cotrd: 4 Track 7″

Description

San Luis Potos’s Cotrd have been shovelling the grime in Mexico since their initial inception back in 2018. They’ve established themselves as major players in the Mexican, DIY Punk Scene booking tours, driving bands and playing a perfected 90’s style Swedish/UK, D-Beat/Crust. This new, 4 Track E.P. finds them laying into their particular blend of the dark and dismal and is their first release since their 2020 Demo and in their most focused and punishing form. The winded exasperations call back to the vocal stylings of classics like Doom and the musical D-Beat/Crust attack reminiscent of juggernauts like Disgust and Napalm Raid are clear and not unfounded comparisons. There’s a bleak levity weaving through the relentlessness and it showcases that incessant brooding of the human existence. A not-so-subtle cry for a way out in a world gone mad.

Our take: Neon Taste Records dips into Mexicos punk underground for this nasty little 4-song ripper. Cotrds sound is brutal, fast, heavy, and very dark. While theyre unmistakably a hardcore bandmoments here sound like the purest Swedish kngthey borrow some of the damp and grimy aesthetic of old school death metal. Not to say Cotrd sounds like death metal at all they dont blast and their riffs dont sound like death metal, but theres a color of doom here I associate with raw 80s underground metal. Cotrds approach reminds me of Pollen and Absolut, two other bands whose d-beat hardcore sounds like its draped in a fog of old school death metal. As the description notes, fans of Doom will also find plenty to like here. Pummeling.