Now this London group is kind of a rare beast in this day and age in that they not only lean all-in on early postcore and first-wave emocore circa mid-eighties to mid-nineties with groups such as Rites Of Spring, Moss Icon, Drive Like Jehu, eary Unwound, Squirrel Bait… you name it, while also absolutely holding their own in the present with well-balanced and fleshed-out song structures and arrangements rather than coming off as yet another bloodless rehash of the genre’s most basic signifiers. Now there’s two possible ways you’re gonna react to these words. Either you’ve long ago acquired a compulsive dislike for anything even remotely touching on *mo subgenres, which is very likely if you’ve first encountered the genre in the late ’90s or later and i can’t really fault you for that, given what terrible things that were gonna come out of it roughly from then on. Or maybe you are well aware that there’s been a lot more to the divisive subgenre in its early days, long before it entered its now thoroughly meme-ified cliché era. And in case all of that sounds just like latin to you now, i’m gonna invite you to maybe discover a bit of the unlikely creative spark and unleashed energy much of the pioneering generation had in common. Anyway, this is good shit right there and may be as good a segue as anything towards discovering the mostly still untarnished *mo and *core shit of the olden days.
