Asbestos: Wishful Thinking 7"
Another amazing band from the best scene in America, Denver. They cannot stop pumping out great records and if you've seen videos of shows there they a fucking packed to the gills with young people. What started out last as a solo project of Sam Rupsa, now joined by Marc Canfield (members of blood loss and videodrome) and carries a musical likeness to Civilized, Big Laugh (demo especially) or a really really dark fucked up Straight Ahead. Some of you will love it, others will hate it I really don't give a fuck. This record took forever to come out and they will have a new one soon.
Our take: 11PM brings us the debut from this dark and desperate-sounding hardcore band from Denver. As with the Crawl Space LP I also wrote about this week, Asbestos’s sound reminds me of Youth Attack’s 2010s output (which makes sense as a lot of those bands came from Denver): it’s fast and heavy, rooted in early 80s US hardcore, but with a loose, noisy delivery and a dark and depressing vibe, which comes through mostly in the strangled-sounding vocals. It’s straightforward hardcore punk, but there’s an arty edge to it I like, most apparent on the instrumental track “Interlude,” which applies Asbestos’s smudged textures to a pretty solo guitar figure. After that brief respite, though, it’s back into the pit for the last three songs.
Another amazing band from the best scene in America, Denver. They cannot stop pumping out great records and if you've seen videos of shows there they a fucking packed to the gills with young people. What started out last as a solo project of Sam Rupsa, now joined by Marc Canfield (members of blood loss and videodrome) and carries a musical likeness to Civilized, Big Laugh (demo especially) or a really really dark fucked up Straight Ahead. Some of you will love it, others will hate it I really don't give a fuck. This record took forever to come out and they will have a new one soon.
Our take: 11PM brings us the debut from this dark and desperate-sounding hardcore band from Denver. As with the Crawl Space LP I also wrote about this week, Asbestos’s sound reminds me of Youth Attack’s 2010s output (which makes sense as a lot of those bands came from Denver): it’s fast and heavy, rooted in early 80s US hardcore, but with a loose, noisy delivery and a dark and depressing vibe, which comes through mostly in the strangled-sounding vocals. It’s straightforward hardcore punk, but there’s an arty edge to it I like, most apparent on the instrumental track “Interlude,” which applies Asbestos’s smudged textures to a pretty solo guitar figure. After that brief respite, though, it’s back into the pit for the last three songs.
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Another amazing band from the best scene in America, Denver. They cannot stop pumping out great records and if you've seen videos of shows there they a fucking packed to the gills with young people. What started out last as a solo project of Sam Rupsa, now joined by Marc Canfield (members of blood loss and videodrome) and carries a musical likeness to Civilized, Big Laugh (demo especially) or a really really dark fucked up Straight Ahead. Some of you will love it, others will hate it I really don't give a fuck. This record took forever to come out and they will have a new one soon.
Our take: 11PM brings us the debut from this dark and desperate-sounding hardcore band from Denver. As with the Crawl Space LP I also wrote about this week, Asbestos’s sound reminds me of Youth Attack’s 2010s output (which makes sense as a lot of those bands came from Denver): it’s fast and heavy, rooted in early 80s US hardcore, but with a loose, noisy delivery and a dark and depressing vibe, which comes through mostly in the strangled-sounding vocals. It’s straightforward hardcore punk, but there’s an arty edge to it I like, most apparent on the instrumental track “Interlude,” which applies Asbestos’s smudged textures to a pretty solo guitar figure. After that brief respite, though, it’s back into the pit for the last three songs.
