Rapid Dye Rapid Dye LP
Totally unhinged hardcore from Sydney’s RAPID DYE, a band who have been around the block and whose reputation for good live shows proceeds them. Fortunately, their first LP achieves the rare feat of living up to that hype, featuring nine songs in about ten minutes that do a good job capturing the loud and sweaty experience of a punk show, much like the one featured on the cover. Lo-fi vocals, distorted-to-oblivion guitars, and an unhinged rhythm section barrel forward with the energy of a hurricane and draw comparisons to the blunt force of early NYHC. If you can’t catch RAPID DYE live, you could do worse than listening to this.