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SOME GIRLS
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what I really liked about this one: I was actually scared to listen to it.
When I pushed ‘play’, I had that face on, you know, the one-eyed Popeye
stance you take when you can clearly see the baseball that’s gonna smash
you in the nose, but it’s coming so fast, you can’t get out of it’s way.
The steely resolve of the clearly doomed. After all, Some Girls is
comprised of the crème de la crud of the San Diego destructo-punk scene.
It’s positively lousy with members of noise art terrorists The Locust and
riot-baiting hardcore meathammers American Nightmare, to say nothing of
The Plot To Blow Up the Eiffel Tower and Give Up the Ghost, so highly
combustible fuck n’ roll is bound to happen. And it does, sorta. As their
drummer, Sal Gallegos, so succinctly put it, this ain’t no “cupcake
shit”, but it’s really just noisy hardcore riddled with a few diseased
sounding artwhore guitars. The first real groove doesn’t kick in until
track twelve, “Religion II”, a growly graveyard stomp that brings
to mind the lunatic lumberjack death punk of Killdozer; but before and
after, it’s just a relentless battering of angry metal-punk with pained
screaming tossed over the top. And that’s ok, it’s just not all that
SCARY, ya know?
Then again, I’ve never been to one of their shows. I’m sure the pit is fucking terrifying. ________________________________________________________ |
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