End of a Year
End of a Year
Deathwish Inc. (2009)
Yes, End of a Year give us yet another new record into which we can sink our collective teeth (if one so chooses) and its three songs might just be the best work that they can lay claim (outside my favorite song of theirs still, "Harrison"). This Albany, New York, crew truly give three crisp, D.C. hardcore inspired tracks of good punk rock. You know, the kind that sounds urgent and intelligent while being gruff and dance-y enough to make people shake their bottoms on the dance floor (my apologies to all the kung fu practitioners out there as this is not your soundtrack). Is End of a Year a throwback to some bygone era of punk and hardcore or are they some inkling of a bright future for what at times people claim as dead? The less than a minute and a half opus that is "Robert E. Howard" strikes a strong chord with its great lead guitar part that propels the stop start rhythm and keeps the song moving while the vocal cadence is a throwback (in the best way imaginable) to the short lived D.C. band Embrace, when vocalist Patick Kindlon screams out, "No sex tonight / … Read more
Old Man's Child
Slaves of the World
Century Media (2009)
It's been about four years since the last Old Man's Child record and it seems we've been waiting forever for … Read more
Deep Snapper
A Drowning Man Can Pull You Under
Edna Peppers (2007)
Hailing from Texas, Deep Snapper give listeners A Drowning Man Can Pull You Under, a roiling ten track album that … Read more
