March 2011
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Fucked Up: Everything after the "Generation"...
[EDIT: The point of this post was to approach, obliquely, even allegorically, a point I wanted to make about Fucked Up. The problem with writing about this band, however, is that they have seemingly forestalled in advance the criticism of the “close-minded hardcore fan who only likes the early singles.” But as someone who likes Eno and Neu! more than Verbal Abuse or Christ on Parade,...
Tragedy- s/t LP (2000)
This is one of those albums where it is particularly hard to get at “what it really sounds like,” at what is really encoded in the wax grooves—so obscured is it by its own massive influence, a decade of “epic crust,” the proliferation of side-projects by the musicians here, and the massive shadow they cast even at the time.
It’s easy to forget what the 1990s...
