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| Album Rating: A |
As a whole, hardcore has kind of stagnated. It's true. Even hardcore-heroes Defeater noted it, saying "There's a prevalent thing in this genre where if you're not doing what
hardcore bands have been doing for the last 25 years almost verbatim,
you're fucking up." And for all the excellent releases that we have seen this past few years, there's no denying that there is some validity to Jay Maas' statement. But every so often an album comes along that reminds us why we fell in love with the genre to begin with; a sense of escape from a world that tells us what music
should be, but not what it can be. We are reminded that music can be angst ridden, disonant, angry, and noisy, but at the same time, starkly beautiful. Introducing the first record under the State Faults moniker,
Desolate Peaks.
