Description
Londons singular maelstrom, Violin, has arrived at ILRHQ with four deadly soundblasts to loosen the grip on your perceived reality. Violins sole proprietor, Lindsay Corstophine, exposes and decimates a cruel fantastic world of willful ignorance, seething metropolitan dread, paranoid visions and fatal submissions. All this at mostly one two violence tempo in the perfect amount of hardcore time, spanning less than 6 minutes total.
Our take: Iron Lung Records brings us the second record from this London hardcore projecttheir first was on La Vida Es Un Musand the label is a fitting home for Violins slightly left-of-center hardcore. Honestly, though, this record dials back the quirkier elements we heard on Violins previous record, leaning more toward straightforward hardcore. Violins particular take is burly and propulsive, reminding me of early 80s Boston bands like Negative FX and SS Decontrol. I love the term violence tempo that Iron Lung uses in their description, and its apt for the relentless propulsion on display here. We get a taste of the weird stuff, though, with some heavily effected guitar emphasizing the quirky lead riff in Subservient as well as a chaotic section where noisy synth squalls swoop into the mix. If theres such a thing as thinking persons dumb hardcore, this is it.
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