Featured on Elementary Revolt's Blogosphere of the Week!It's July, it's been cold and dreary all day, plans upon plans have been foiled, and I haven't updated for a bit. Starting now, reader, you will no longer associate Hawaii with a cheerful isolation, but with the darkest, most pathetic depression to crawl on its hands and knees begging to be a part of your mainland world again.
Here today is an entry that I have been meaning to do for a while. Despite having only discovered them within the past couple years, Chokebore have quickly become a favorite of mine and definitely the "go-to" band whenever I am feeling especially awful. Not because this band makes me feel better, goodness no, that's too constructive. This is the sort of band you listen to when you see a sunny day and pray for an overcast to roll by and last for the rest of your life. This is a band to lock yourself in your bedroom, turn out the lights, close the blinds and glare at the ceiling with. And likewise, this record is your best and only friend. Everyone has those days; we're only human.
I can't think of one punk-related record that I've genuinely contemplated more than this one. This record, entitled Black Black, is just that, black on black: a trudging, deadweight, dark cloud following you around the room and wherever you go. Although pop in composition - referring especially to tracks like "The Perfect Date" - there are few if any happy moments to be found here. I wouldn't say this is a particularly deep album in the sense that there are so many different facets to take into consideration. In fact, upon first listen, you may find it a shallow album that just drifts along the surface of various overarching themes and rarely elaborates, rarely lets you into its world. But after a few more listens, maybe a day or two to let it sink in, the record might sneak up on you. Troy von Balthasar's crooning suddenly becomes your suppressed conscience coming back to haunt you. Lurking behind all the hooks that keep you listening, you find an infallible desolation offering you temporary solace and complacency for the entirety of the record. If you find yourself relating to this music, there might be something wrong with you, and that's what this is for. This is a crutch, an absolutely hopeless crutch. In twelve songs, Chokebore manage to create at least six memorable anthems for the doomed, and definitely one heavy, relentlessly sad record that is likely to stay with you for a while.
I can't say enough about this, but I encourage anyone within the sound of my voice (text?) to download this and tell me it's not catharsis. This was Punk In My Vitamins #22. Chokebore were previously associated with AmpRep and had a previous project called Dana Lynn. For fans of Unwound, Lowercase, and other heavy, noisy leaning slowcore. But really, you're not likely to find another band like this.
Chokebore - Black Black LP MediaFire
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Chokebore is an American indie rock band formed in the early 1990s in Honolulu, Hawaii, and subsequently based in Los Angeles, California.
Chokebore's new 5-track EP has just been mastered yesterday in Berlin! The five new songs have been recorded in Berlin and in the South of France.
Chokebore's initiation following their first record was a six week jaunt through the US on the Clusterfuck tour, in the fall of 1993.
Chokebore new EP Falls is Best 12-inch vinyl on October 10th, the French label vicious circle. It will also be published in digital format, after the band's fall tour.
The voltage sailed, with pure hindsight, was the best thing to own, you can burn through a crowded room, but you'll never feel sorry again.
Chokebore play in Nuremberg, and Trier, Weinheim October. See the entire European tour scheduled tour dates page.
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