Shards, “Shards” LP

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Shards
(Sorry State)

Why don’t more bands sound like the Criminals? Shards manage to take that menacing, slightly mush-mouthed delivery for which Jesse Luscious is known and fuse it with faster, more evil instrumentation. The temptation to compare Shards to the whole crack rock steady family of Choking Victim, INDK, et al, is tempting. The North Carolina act does resemble those New Yorkers, especially in that the bass is at the forefront of most songs (especially “Suicide”), but the music really owes more the early ’80s SoCal hardcore scene than recent New York crust developments.
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