1/4 DEAD

 

Chaotic and demonic mid-decade hardcore from...from Delaware. 1/4 DEAD are too weird to fall in with the punk stomps that dominated the era, but they're surely not trying to get lumped in with some mysterious guy revival...which is all why I keep pumping the demo. Still can't figure out where they're supposed to fit and then I remember...they're from Delaware. They don't fit, and that's the whole damn point. Maybe that's why their 2014 tape is (still) a killer. I hope the guitar played is still in bands because that wild style should not go dormant. 

1/4 DEAD

JOE BREITENBACH

 

On the off chance that you made it through yesterday, please allow me to offer you this bridge to tomorrow. Today is nothing more than a fleeting presence. It will be gone soon, and hopefully you will still be here.  

FRIGID WATERS

MOANERS

 

I'm getting to be rather obsessed with this 1987 Delaware artifact. Absolutely brilliant SPITS-by-way-of-THE FALL sharing space with a few dreary and out of tune college rock tracks and raw, snotty US DIY punk. And a mini-comp on the flip with two burners from JONES PURCELL and contributions from DARK REALITY, PRISONERS OF WAR ("Kitty Kat" might be the best single cut on the tape), GUILTY BYSTANDERS, LOCAL COLOR and two singer songwriters to ensure that listeners will be thoroughly perplexed upon completion. Obsessed might be a stretch, of course...but I want to know more and I want to hear more, so consider me "interested."

OUT TO KILL