MEM//BRANE - Subcutaneous EP
This ep has been on heavy rotation since a friend posted it on our local punk mastodon instance a few months ago and i still just want to keep it looping into oblivion. Is this a perfect stenchcore release? Maybe there is too much hardcore mixed in for that label but that makes it even better IMO. At the end of the second track "Chain Breaker" there is a moment when you question if you are listening to a new IRON AGE record. "To Catch A Falling Knife" has maybe the hardest intro change into the first verse I've ever heard, and "Transgender Refugee" has a call back riff that makes you just wanna loop the entire thing. Four extremely solid tracks from this Bellingham, WA band. For fans of if HELLSHOCK and IRON AGE had a baby that was a very cool person.