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BRAIN TUMORS  self-titled  7" VINYL   (Fashionable Idiots)   6.50


Here's an awesome debut Ep from a hardcore punk band out of Minneapolis called Brain Tumors that had me raging instantly the first time I threw it on the deck. It's on Fashionable Idiots, and like most of the stuff that I've heard from the label, it's wonky hardcore with a quirky style of it's own. The six songs on this platter are fast, ferocious blasts of hardcore that come from the Negative Approach/Die Kreuzen school of brute thrash, always a winner in my book, but injects it with manic solos, jangly, sort of twangy guitars, and some angular skronk. Oh, and the singer is a goddamn maniac, spitting and frothing and howling out his lyrics, belting them out in a nearly unintelligible mess of anti-social ranting. I can't wait to hear more from these guys, you'll want to check this Ep out if you're infatuated with the new crop of mutant hardcore bands that have been coming out on Iron Lung and Fashionable Idiots and Parts Unknown. The record comes in a disgusting four-color silk-screened sleeve, and is limited to six hundred copies.