Consumer Culture packs a lot of vitriol and thrilling ill will into one minute, twelve seconds run time of “Knives.” The grinding, noisy sounds could just as well be a modern hardcore song but there’s something more frayed around the edges and unhinged and the spooky, spectral synth that haunts the last third of the song. It seethes and pulses with an insistence and the lyrics are so psychotically nihilistic it is borderline in the realm of a Brainbombs song if the latter was more into straightedge hardcore. This is a quality one hears across the concise mayhem of the rest of Consumer Culture’s latest album The Future is A Pile of Bodies (released on July 21, 2023 on The Ghost is Clear Records). It’s just too weird to be hardcore and too punk to be some experimental psychedelic rock band. Think something like Flipper sped up and edited to the bare essentials. Listen to “Knives” on Spotify and follow Consumer Culture from Baltimore at the links below.
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