We Were Skeletons

We Were Skeletons

Written by: PP on 24/11/2010 02:48:22

Now what do we have here...another classic old school screamo - or skramz as some people like to call it nowadays - record by a small Pennsylvania outfit known to the world as We Were Skeletons. Their self-titled debut jams everything that used to be great about screamo into the size of a honey-jar and shatters it into little, chaotic puzzle you're forced to put together. It's frantic and chaotic, screams fuck you at the bare mention of clean vocals, and sounds just like early Traktor, Kaospilot and the Scandinavian old school screamo scene in general. Hot Cross, Saetia and so forth have of course also been a heavy influence, but the key focus here is on the less-produced, more passion-based feeling of ravage that's delivered in an exceptionally technical manner. First The Fall Of Troy record comes to mind when they were less produced and more about frenzied technical chaos than anything else.

Messy, technical post-hardcore riffs allow the band's brutal (for this genre) screamer bounce off the walls in live performances, I'm sure. He delivers an uncompromising scream, back to the basics style, back to the passionate emotion that fueled the rage back in the day, long before fringe haircuts and tight jeans started to matter. The unrelenting fury and passion is undeniable as you flow through masterpieces such as "It's Like Science", the lo-fi explosion of "Kids", or the majestic build up in "Well, I Did Spend A Year In College", which does great things with seemingly so little. Or much, depending on whether you view chaos as a plentiful or minimalistic thing in your point of view.

You can tell that the enthusiam, the passion for the music and nothing but the music is here every second of the way. But still, you have to admit it's like... 10 years too late for this kind of stuff? It's beginning to be 'cool' sounding so retrospective in screamo, after all we've seen dozens of new outfits playing this style lately, so it diminshes some of the impact We Were Skeletons otherwise could've had. See Kaospilot's previous release for precisely the same effect. But without taking anything away from the band, this is some insane shit right here.

7

Download: It's Like Science, This Destroys Us
For the fans of: Hot Cross, Traktor, Kaospilot, The Fall Of Troy, Saetia
Listen: Myspace

Release date 29.06.2010
Topshelf Records

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