HAMMERHEAD Global Depression LP

HAMMERHEAD Global Depression LP

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*** This is a new and unplayed item, direct from the CRUCIAL BLAST shop. ***

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    Available on vinyl (with download) and digipack CD.
    So if you were lusting after more of Hammerhead's pummeling, brooding noise rock after hearing that killer Memory Hole EP that was recently reissued, you'll have to do with another EP's worth of material from the band. Just like Memory Hole, this is a shorter release from the esteemed 90's noise rock outfit, but it looks like we'll have to settle for these teasing EPs for at least the time being, as they've yet to do a new full-length album since reforming a few years ago for the Amphetamine Reptile 25th anniversary show. Global Depression is just as good as the other new stuff the band has done, these six songs sounding like the Minneapolis outfit had been beamed straight out of the mid-90s, packing all of the same propulsive post-punk punch and crushing serpentine hooks as classic works like Into The Vortex and Ethereal Killer. Its got that same sense of dystopian dread and the bleak, misanthropic lyrics that made their older albums such favorites; from the sinister, nihilistic anthem "Santa Prisca" and the swinging, speedy punk lurch of "Outer Rim" to the disturbing dirge psychosis of "Another Room", all of these songs are made up of equal parts lurching power and driving hooks, peppered with deranged singsong choruses and bits of blaring organ, and even what sounds like a trumpet section that shows up at one point on the song "Like A Wizard", stuff that gives Hammerhead's latest a dirty, psychedelic vibe. But the weirdest track on here is the demented Casio deathmarch of "Descended From Apes" that closes the disc, which pairs up another one of their ominous riffs and morose melodic hooks with a mix of chintzy, oddly programmed drum beats and washes of spaced-out guitar, vaguely resembling a more messed-up Chrome. All of this stuff smolders with a great malevolent attitude, still seeping that sinister urban depravity and paranoia that always gave their stuff a meaner, darker feel than a lot of their Am Rep brethren; this and the recent Memory Hole EP are both terrific new EPs, now if only they'll follow this stuff up with a full album of new material that I'm hoping for...   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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