Trash Talk

Awake

True Panther

Oct 20, 2011 Web Exclusive By Luke Winkie Bookmark and Share


Four out of the five songs on the Awake EP open with the telltale feedback-squeal of a guitar being too close to an amp. Yes, Trash Talk is still plenty comfortable being a basement hardcore band in small, volatile doses. The eight minutes of Awake go up like a barrel of gasoline-once it starts erupting there's no choice but to brace for impact. The only real surprise is "Blind Evolution." Coming between the shorter, sucker-punch tracks, it's actually got a definable arc, moving between apocalyptic squalls into a chunkier, ominous war-march-think more doom than thrash. Is this the foreshadowing of a new Trash Talk era? Almost absolutely not; they're very happy, and very good, at being a rawks-off, evil-grin hardcore band-and there's no reason to think they have any ambitions higher than that. Especially when there doesn't seem to be anyone else stepping up to that particular plate. (www.myspace.com/trashtalkfu)

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