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Iron Lung - Sexless // No Sex |
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Written by Jana, English only
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 It’s amazing how Iron Lung manage to put everything that can still matter about hardcore into little more than twenty minutes of captivating music that’s both exciting and painful to listen to. Uncompromising as hell, these 20 songs of fast and grindy thrash are more of a continuous attack on the listener than anything else. They hardly ever slow down and if they do, it’s for the sake of expressing Iron Lung’s roaring anger in variation, not ever moderation. The lyrics are some of the bleakest and scariest stuff I’ver read in an album booklet, as they all deal with ideas of disease and death and are interconnected, creating a gloomy overall picture of the dreariness of existence. All this in a no-nonsense, only seemingly simple way that uses reappearing images of medical science and industry and is also reflected in the great artwork.
Anyone who’s been into the band’s first record should find “Sexless//No Sex” just as impressive and if you haven’t really checked out the band so far, do yourself a favour and do it now. By the way this is out on San Francisco’s fine Prank Records so I guess the quality doesn’t exactly come as a surprise.
iron lung on myspace
prank records
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