Vaxine: S/T 7″

Description

Raging pogo punk/hardcore from NYC!

Our take: Debut vinyl from this New York City punk band featuring a couple of transplants who played in the great Portland band PMS84 along with some New York natives with similarly impressive resumes. Vaxine meets in the middle between PMS84s street punk / UK82 sound and the more hardcore-sounding stuff out of New York (like, for instance, guitarist Mikes other band Extended Hell). The songs are almost all super fast (only slowing things down a hair for the anthemic In Decline), but with a UK82-informed sense of catchiness, particularly in the vocals and occasionally melodic bass playing. Its clear Vaxine isnt trying to do anything but deliver a batch of killer punk songs, but they do so with a sense of creativity and style that belies the fact theyve been around the block a time or two. Take, for instance, their creative use of delay on the vocals, which gives the track Leeches one of the most memorable choruses Ive heard in a while. An all-around killer EP.