Blood Ties: S/T 7″

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Our take: We carried a demo tape from Canadas Blood Ties a while back, and now theyre back with their debut 10-song EP. If I had to sum up Blood Ties sound, Id say they sound like music made by and for people who consider the Negative Approach EP the purest and greatest expression of hardcore. Its not that Blood Ties is imitating Negative Approach (in fact, I occasionally get a whiff of something that reminds me more of United Blood or Siege), but rather they are summoning the same muse. Its hardcore stripped down to its bare essentials, that takes loud, fast, and pissed to its undiluted Platonic ideal, with only the bare skeleton of English oi! to give it the faint outline of musical shape. If you share this philosophy on hardcoreI do, even if theres plenty of room in my listening diet for other thingsI cant imagine you wouldnt think this rips its raw, pissed, fast, and perfectly executed in every way. It doesnt reinvent the wheel, but sometimes what you need is good old fashioned meat and potatoes.