Breech Boys Greetings From Paradise EP
I don’t know if anywhere is a cool place to live right now, but judging from the punk and hardcore that comes out of British Columbia, it must be a miserable place, because the bands coming out of there are mean as spit. BREECH BOYS keep that thread going through down-and-out polka beat hardcore that cuts away every ounce of fat, leaving nothing but blood and muscle. There’s some occasional rock‘n’roll-inspired guitar leads, but otherwise this is pummeling and recorded with the grit knobs all the way up. While a track like “Hands Tied” might not earn the band any points for originality, it more than makes up for it in sheer aggression. To a degree, hardcore’s appeal lies in the production and how it hits the listener (even though we’d probably all agree the live show is the ideal space for the genre), and this band gets that more than right. This is a spare and battering slice of hardcore punk waiting for you to break a tooth on it.