DEMONSTRATE - Prove Me Wrong
Clocking in just over 5 1/2 minutes, this record gives you everything you need and nothing you don’t. Fast parts, groove parts, well placed mosh parts, and most importantly parts to actually two-step to. I find a lot of current bands emulating 80’s hardcore tend to sound more like bands influenced by the era than l the original bands themselves. The songs on Prove Me Wrong sound like they were written by hardcore historians. On DEMONSTRATES’s Bandcamp, notable fellow Philadelphian, Dan Yemen, really drives home the point when he commented “Sounds like actual 1987. Not a bunch of jocks trying to sound like 1987. Actual time travel”. I’ll defer to Dan’s lived experience there since that was the year I was born, but I will say this record made me feel like the first time I heard hardcore: young, alive, and a lot more hopeful. One of the best of the year for sure.
FFO: hardcore punk, punk hardcore, striaghtedge, self-empowerment and unity.
Released by Designated Moshers Unit, listen here: https://designatedmoshersunit.bandcamp.com/album/dmu-026-demonstrate-prove-me-wrong-e-p
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