Description
If youre looking for a band that embody everything hardcore punk should be, then youre looking for Birds in Row. Sonically, theyre fearless. Lyrically, theyre as poetic as they are recusant. And live, theyre a ruthless force, matching the power of their music with boundless, must-see energy.
After debut album You, Me & the Violence sparked listenersimaginations, 2018 follow-up We Already Lost the World was an unyielding inferno of brazen ideas. Metal Hammer UK called it intelligent, poignant art, writing that this downwardspiral changes pace and weight at every turn. It screamed for mutual respect in a world of increasingly extreme political divides, and used the vehicles of punk, post-hardcore and post-metal to carry its cries.
Now comes Gris Klein. Birds in Rows third full-length album is their most genre-bending and timely declaration yet. Water Wings opens, its scraping guitar strums a ticking clock, counting down to the inevitable barrage of hardcore to follow. Noah revs up over its six gargantuan minutes. Its singing slowly spirals into apoplectic screeches. Trompe loeil is half folk, half punk, and Winter Yet has no qualms about busting out seismic metal guitars at its climax. Its an amorphous beast of an album: always unpredictable, but never out of character for this creative collective.
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