Static is a City (EP) by
Static is a City
Year: 2014
The recent few years have been good to post-hardcore. While the 90's were all about noise rock influence and the 2000's were more math rock and weird arty stuff, this decade's focus seems to be revealing itself as shoegaze and post-rock. Bands like Title Fight, Touché Amoré, and The Men utilize these influences along with their hardcore influences to make some really polarizing music. This band sorta sounds like Touché, with less emphasis on skramz and more on the post-rock tendencies. It's ethereal and bleak, but certainly not soulless. The songs often start as jangly instrumentals, and burst into frenetic rants. Sadly, the band broke up not long after forming, so this release is their only real testament to what could have been an interesting career. It's a great EP, but they really didn't have long enough to come into their own.
8/10