Loma Prieta - 2010 Life/Less

Band : Loma Prieta

Album : Life/Less

Release Year : 2010

Genre : Screamo / Emo Violence

Tracklist:

1. Useless Limbs
2. Silhouettes
3. Dark Mtn
4. Nothing Left
5. Closenessless
6. Lost Bridge
7. No Friends
8. Our Condition
9. Two Voices
10. Apparition

The categorizing of Loma Prieta’s newest LP may grow to be a bit of a misnomer; the emotional characteristics are still as present as they ever were, see Dark Mountain, but how they are arranged feel more fashioned towards the hardcore and in some instances the grindcore crowd for lack of a better term emo powerviolence. Thunderous melodies and distortion that would drive White Noise enthusiasts crazy Life / Less becomes one of the messiest releases of the year – and I love it. How do we find beauty in something that is so messy? For the unabashed, art is completely subjective and one man’s trash is almost certain to be another’s treasure. This is not meant to consider Life / Less trash as it is far from such a generality. Nonetheless it is meant to evoke the notion that for a majority of its seventeen minute length Life / Less is a screamo rendition of “Stomp”. Though things are hardly as discernible as the mega Broadway hit; I imagine the intended static/fuzz throughout the album is a thanking to their 90’s contemporaries (basically any act signed to Gravity Records). Albeit, when things finally do crystalize on the airwaves it elicits feelings of a faint reality, take notice to the subway engine screeching across the tracks after the abrasive sixty seconds that precede it on “Dark Mtn”.

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