As Friends Rust have moved away from the Hot Water Music-cum-Avail type of emo hardcore and into the more mature style of Dag Nasty, and all for the better.
It’s actually quite melancholy and touching, it just that it doesn’t live up to what I expected from ex-Cross My Heart guitarist/vocalist Ryan Shelkett.
Good nose-breaking, arms-flailing, falling-down-a-glass-covered-flight-of-stairs kind of intensity matched with strong riffage. From Budapest, Hungary.
Shiner, like Burning Airlines and No Knife, is one of those cases of rock bands that defy conventional song structures, tempo changes, melodic progressions.
Math rock geeks who love Sonic Youth and Jawbox should worship the stage that Aviso’Hara tear apart with their tweaked chords and barbed wire arpeggios.
Ben Folds has taken his art beyond his predecessors. Neither Billy Joel nor Elton John packed as much lyrical relevance as Ben Folds during their heyday.