De Rodillas Implacable EP
Five hard-charging hardcore tunes, coming to you from the punkest city in the USA: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. DE RODILLAS dispense with the pleasantries and set directly into the bone-breaking and ear-splitting. I got to catch their citymates PEACE TALKS recently, and this is cooking with a similar spice, which is to say that the heat is cranked way up. These tracks are nearly combustible, ramping up the tension from one song to the next until the closing cut “Quiero Ser Buena,” which slows things down a touch and introduces some melody to the vocal delivery. There’s not a lot of window-dressing or ornamentation on this EP. It’s lean and to-the-point, with a strong undercurrent of UK82 nastiness. Four-chord, pogo-worthy, pissed-off punk. What more do ya really need?