Violin Violin
- Format
12 Inch
Black
£16.00
Rigorously tight hardcore that continually threatens to veer out of control but bar an unhinged electronic hammond organ attack at the end of Rapture, maintains resolute focus.
The emphasis is on scorchingly fast hardcore. However, the song writing is nuanced and deploys the mid-pace stomp to crushing effect. Remarkably, this is essentially a solo project for Sauna Youth’s Lindsay Corstophine (bar the drums from Jonah Falco of Fucked Up / Game).
A deranged cacophony straight out of London, England.
On their debut, self-titled release, VIOLIN blend elements of Swedish masters TOTALITÄR and HEADCLEANERS with the muscle and swagger of Boston 82 and the panicked power of NYHC in the mid 80s. The end result is a mind-numbingly fast and concise pure hardcore punk that is all together contemporary, edging in at times on the learned idiocy of Toronto’s S.H.I.T.
VIOLIN is the brainchild of Lindsay Corstorphine (SAUNA YOUTH, MONOTONY, PRIMITIVE PARTS etc) who has written, mixed and recorded everything on this stellar release, with the exception of the drums, here carried out by the inimitable Jonah Falco of FUCKED UP fame. Pinning Falco’s drumming to Corstorphine’s vision has nailed a sound which is at once huge and perfectly audible, whilst remaining brutal and ugly in tone.
There are moments of genuine innovation on display as is evident on the track ‘Empty Mind’ which begins with discordant noise, before building from a mid-paced swing into frantic lunacy, and then introducing a harrowing and unexpected synthesiser.
The stark black and white artwork, carried out by Daniel David Freeman, provides a perfectly abstract and menacing back drop to this slab of primitive hardcore.