Innards + The Reptilian - 2011 Split

Band : Innards + The Reptilian

Album : Split

Release Year : 2011

Genre : Screamo | Emo | Indie | Mathrock

Tracklist :

 1.Innards - Goro  
2.Innards - No Money, More Problems  
3.The Reptilian - Gold Blooded  
4.The Reptilian - Old Blood

Here we find Innards completing their world domination via 7" splits campaign with arguably the coolest of the bunch.  It should be no surprise that I love the shit out of The Reptilian, so when I heard that this split was taking place, I got really excited.  Rightfully so, I found, as soon as I heard the meltdown at 1:23 into Innards' "Goro."  "How do I explain myself," Leo grates over the sludgiest line in the Innards catalog.  Then they keep going.  For anyone that got kind of bored with Innards two minute songs that race past you, here are two keepers.  Aforementioned "Goro" clocks in at 4:14 and features some very cool (read: more focused) guitar work that results in a near Fugazi-esque line for a couple seconds and "No Money, More Problems" sounds like someone flailing in cold water, trying not to drown.  The Reptilian just continue evolving.  Totally frank lines from the Jowls' split like "Your swag is none of my concern" find their brothers and sisters here among such passages as "How does shitting on your friend's name make up for your lack of shame?" from "Gold Blooded."  Ever since they became a three piece, the bass became just as prominent as Russ' guitar work, and it sounds FANTASTIC here.  If you like the fuzzy, chorded bass sound, then you've just found two of your favorite songs.  Please support Carucage records on their venture into putting out some of the best music around.  Rumor has it they're going to be getting Carucage watches soon.  How cool, right? -CtD

 

 

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Innards & Two Knights - 2011 No Scum Allowed (Split)

Band : Innards & Two Knights

Album : No Scum Allowed (Split)

Release Year : 2011

Genre : Emo | Screamo

 

Tracklist :

 Innards
01 Brain
02 Chumpchange

Two Knights
03 Thomas Rabon:  Rydel High Class President
04 What Would Zooey Deschanel Do?

Innards are continuing to present themselves as one of the most promising skramz bands around.  Is skramz a derogatory term?  Someone let me know, because I use it as a genre a lot for stuff like innards.  Anyways, their two tracks kill and only improve upon the split stuff they did with мища.  I'd never heard Two Knights before this morning, but I'm pretty well sold.  The tapping stuff reminded me of Them, Roaring Twenties and they do some nice stuff within emo song structures.  Having these two do a split together is a perfect blend of the new music being generated all around the country, reinventing hardcore and emo into things that we've never heard before. -CtD

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Innards - 2010 cool out, mthrfkr

Band : Innards

Album : cool out, mthrfkr

Release Year : 2010

Genre : Screamo | Emo Violence

Tracklist :

1. The Fight To Stay Awake// Phone Doc
2. Pitching Pennies
3. Still Smoldering
4. Guess What? You're Dead
5. Hey What's Up With That Basket of Crinkle Fries Behind Your Ear?
6. Memories Imploding// Accidents Bring Expletives

Innards is a newly formed screamo band from Fort Worth, Texas formed from current members of Nouveaux Riches/Jubilee and Zwounds. Innards is unique in that they combine math rock and screamo and have both chaotic and melodic parts. Also they have two singers which makes the band very epic at times. The band recently went on tour and this release is their tour EP. Band definitely ups the skramz.

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мища and Innards - 2011 424/7 (split)

Band : мища and Innards

Album : 424/7 (split)

Release Year : 2011

Genre : Screamo | Emo Violence

Tracklist :

01 мища - I've Built Plenty of Houses, But I've Broken More Homes.mp3
02 Innards - slothbear.mp3
03 Innards - s1mpl3 decisions.mp3

A new split from the best of current screamo scene, мища and Innards. This 7" will be release on June and be sure you will get it!!. Well, here's the songs!!

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Innards - 2011 Tracing

Band : Innards

Album : Tracing

Release Year : 2011

Genre : Screamo / Emo Violence

Tracklist :

1. wall
2. memories imploding
3. polynesian business ethics
4. speedvayne
5. s.gze
6. man, fuck.
7. clean cut, rough trade
8. scamming for underage hunniez on x
9. hard to swallow

Based in the Dallas/Forth Worth, Texas area, innards is part of a reignited, reinvigorated, and electrifyingly competent genuine screamo renaissance. And let’s just go ahead and dispel the notion that “screamo” is a dirty word. Real, authentic screamo is something that was momentarily lost to the Gods of Commerce, as bands like The Used co-opted the term to appeal to both underground fans and major label vultures. It was genuine enough to give them the boost from the underground they needed, while appealing to those who might find something like screamo rather exotic and new. With their rise and subsequent popularity (along with however many other bands like them), the underground gave up and the genre, once vibrant and strange, lost any forward momentum it had as what was once underground became mainstream. It’s a sad tale, and one often repeated. But, there’s a cyclical nature to everything – music especially – and things are finally starting to come back around in noticeably legitimate ways.

With one release prior (both are self-released, as they are unsigned), a brief but chaotic EP titled cool out, mthrfkr, they’re a relatively unknown quantity – but, that’s the case for almost every one of today’s new class of screamo bands. They subscribe to the more is more ethos, relegating their vocalist’s caterwauling, piercing shrieks and throaty howls to a reverbed background, while letting minimally distorted guitars barrel along as bruising drumwork and frenetic bass lines move from one segment to the next of their multi-tempo, multi-movement tracks. Whether letting their guitar lines lead the way, or giving their drummer the okay to transition from destructive blast beat to barely controlled jazz-like riffs, each track is a loosely contained tantrum of musical catharsis.

One thing that is evident, both in the basics of their songwriting and the way each album is recorded and produced, is that this band must be absolutely devastating in a live setting. The EP and tracing contain unbridled energy, focused yet free enough to give the listener a fairly accurate representation of what their live experience must be like. This is a band that has the type of presence that can easily induce rampant fervor and fierce loyalty, and I imagine crowds for their shows make that abundantly clear. I would encourage anyone in the area who might have the chance to see this band perform live to do so, if only to prove me right or wrong.

Both their EP and full-length are quick, dirty, chaotic, and enigmatic. Much like their sonic brethren in Pianos Become The Teeth, Caravels, and the unfortunately defunct Street Smart Cyclist, the transition from clean guitars to raging, spiraling string plucks and noodling is sometimes dizzying, but always intriguing. They are albums that could easily have crossed over in to “that’s just unnecessary” territory, but the surety of sound and the confidence innards has in both their musical and songwriting abilities keeps things from turning in to a mess of unlistenable tracks. There’s a dissonant, yet passionate amount of controlled chaos on display, and it’s easy to see, or, in this case, hear, that innards can, will, and should be on more listener’s radars in the coming months. -lushbeat

 

 

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