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The
fine folks from Acclaim Records in Japan have done it
again. After the infectious melodic dwellings of the
long gone multinational collaboration of Chispas, they
are now regaling us with this enervating compilatory
work from the Finnish hardcore band Burn Again.
Excuses for Apologies features their supreme half
(five songs) from their 2005 split release with their
countrymen Lähdön Aika. Upbeat, belligerent, aggressive,
fierce, and yet somehow controlled are a few of the
adjectives that can be thrown on Burn Again’s way. With
the exception of one song, their music features a very
straightforward crust-friendly sound.
Burn Again play
their style in a very reverential way. Their crusty hardcore has
remained rooted in the halcyon days of the mid-80’s.
Technicality is not an issue, instead an enraged and pessimistic
point of view serves as driver for a style that has retained all
of its simple stylistic values. All the songs are quite straight
forward: locked in a fast tempo and formed by a beefy guitar
sound, short songs move fastly and hastily, all propelled by
clearly pronounced yet monstruous vocals. The result is as
direct as a punch to the jaw as you’ve ever experienced. Outside
the tempo what infuses the music with a somewhat subdued sense
of melody is a second more emotive-less-aggressive-sounding
guitar.
The last seven
songs date back to 2004 and belong to their self-titled demo.
Stylistically, the band is just as acerbic during their demo,
the main difference being in the recording quality, which
features a hollow drum sound and a fuzzier guitar sound. The
aggressive quality, and their obvious reverential love for the
style is the same though. Gladly, the songs are just as good and
powerful as those Burn Again would record a year later.
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