Artist: Rational Animals
Album: Distorted Temptation 7"
Release: 2009
Label: Feral Kid
Tracklist:
1. How To Despise
2. Dark Eyes
3. Everybody's Cool Friend
4. Games And Fun
5. Distorted Temptation
Before we jump into the music, let me apologize for the inactivity on the blog as of late. Life has caught up with all of us, whether it be broken computers, rigid work and school schedules, external harddrive deaths, family emergencies, or arrests, it's made it difficult for most of us to post. This will be remedied soon once I fix my computer, Trey gets some days off, and Flynn is released from the pen. Sorry! Back to the regular programming...
Rational Animals piqued my interested with their pretty solid debut 7", Perception Becomes Reality, but it didn't blow me away like I had hoped. Still, I figured I'd peep their new 7" after seeing their cool yet LONG live show and found myself blown away. For those of you who haven't heard them, the band is often described as playing a style of hardcore pretty indebted to late-era Black Flag sound. To me though, they sound like Gone's "Insidious Distraction" with vocals. And really, the band is more than just a derivative of that sound. The BF comparisons can end with the music, though, as the singer is way too soft compare, even pulling off an Ian MacKaye laugh in the title track.
Every song on this is a straight-up nerd rager. Distorted Temptation sounds like a slightly more furious version of the I Can See You EP, particularly extra-riffy/wanky songs like "Dark Eyes" and "Everybody's Cool Friend." "Games And Fun," which appeared on the Drugged Conscience comp The World Itself Is A Bad Dream, is their hardest hitting song and is one of their finest moments. The real winner is the title track, though, which makes me want to put my head through a wall with each listen. All in all, these songs kick with an extra grooviness not often found in hardcore these days. This is a solid improvement over their first release and I hope Will and co. can keep up the good work.
Here's to Resident Evil 5!
Download Here
Buy Here
-Adam
Album: Distorted Temptation 7"
Release: 2009
Label: Feral Kid
Tracklist:
1. How To Despise
2. Dark Eyes
3. Everybody's Cool Friend
4. Games And Fun
5. Distorted Temptation
Before we jump into the music, let me apologize for the inactivity on the blog as of late. Life has caught up with all of us, whether it be broken computers, rigid work and school schedules, external harddrive deaths, family emergencies, or arrests, it's made it difficult for most of us to post. This will be remedied soon once I fix my computer, Trey gets some days off, and Flynn is released from the pen. Sorry! Back to the regular programming...
Rational Animals piqued my interested with their pretty solid debut 7", Perception Becomes Reality, but it didn't blow me away like I had hoped. Still, I figured I'd peep their new 7" after seeing their cool yet LONG live show and found myself blown away. For those of you who haven't heard them, the band is often described as playing a style of hardcore pretty indebted to late-era Black Flag sound. To me though, they sound like Gone's "Insidious Distraction" with vocals. And really, the band is more than just a derivative of that sound. The BF comparisons can end with the music, though, as the singer is way too soft compare, even pulling off an Ian MacKaye laugh in the title track.
Every song on this is a straight-up nerd rager. Distorted Temptation sounds like a slightly more furious version of the I Can See You EP, particularly extra-riffy/wanky songs like "Dark Eyes" and "Everybody's Cool Friend." "Games And Fun," which appeared on the Drugged Conscience comp The World Itself Is A Bad Dream, is their hardest hitting song and is one of their finest moments. The real winner is the title track, though, which makes me want to put my head through a wall with each listen. All in all, these songs kick with an extra grooviness not often found in hardcore these days. This is a solid improvement over their first release and I hope Will and co. can keep up the good work.
Here's to Resident Evil 5!
Download Here
Buy Here
-Adam
13 comments:
Hey bud, that Rational Anials file is damaged, won't play.
oldschoolmike
Thanks for the heads up, dude. I re-upped it. Hopefully it works this time!
-Adam
Second time you've linked to that "Insidious Distraction" vid! I can't take it!
and I can't take you lack of Gone love!
-Adam
this band SUXXX
fuck you rooney
Thanks for the post...
fuck you rooney and PBR ...you internet nerds!
fuck this rules.
I liked them better when i saw them live. But it is interesting to hear what mackaye would sound like singing for flag.
just to clarify, i only think he sounds like mackaye when he does that laugh.
-adam
just kidding this band is one of the best around today, backed hard
ROTCORE ROTCORE ROTCORE ROTCORE
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