WORLDS
BETWEEN US - downsides
(CD,
noise appeal / capeet)
Short sharp shock. Worlds between us are definitely one
of the best hardcore bands from Austria – though I am definitely in no
position to tell for sure, because what do I know about current hardcore
music? But since after all that is a completely personal and subjective
judgement anyway,so I might put it down. I’ll put them on a list with The Plague Mass
and God Sent Us,
if you urge me. But don’t force me to rank them, because I won’t no
matter what.
Worlds between us get down to their thing quickly and
with energy to churn out a kind of hardcore that demands terms such as
crunchy and kicking for a review. But, on top of that, they are musically
versatile and original enough to keep me interested, which earns them the
most points on my ranking scale. Because otherwise hardcore punk that goes
“born into a fucked up world, never get a chance to choose, it feels so
hard to loose (sic!)” goes straight into the box of CDs that I
might or might not listen to again when I find time, which will probably be
the time I retire. I’d rather listen to my old records on Profane
Existence for historical reasons than listen to a new band rehashing the
past.
And that is not because of the so typical typo (once
and for all: the verb “to lose” is written with one o only, check it in
your dictionary, since it is such an important word in the whole hardcore
territorry I find this should have found its way around.) but because the
music bores me to death. After ten years or more of listening to hardcore, I
think I heard enough of the same. Wait, I want to give some praise to this
record not put down the hardcore scene. How does it come that rants always
win over rational writing?
“downsides” is a great hardcore record. Musically,
it has a little twist of metal, enough screamo parts to keep the energy,
riffage and screaming, growling vocals. For the average kind of metal fan,
WBU would be too experimental anyway, to dynamic and too complicated (metal
heads are usually quite simple minded-guys.) They are probably too metla for
the average hardcore punk as well, but I guess the average hardcore punk is
not a lot less simpleminded than the metal fan. Actually, they go hand in
hand a lot. Worlds between us try to carve out their own ground, which is
hard enough, and being unable to judge if they succeed, I nevertheless like
that they try.
The whole
five songs on here only take a quarter of an hour, and if you ask me that is
the perfect length as well. The sound is crisp, crunchy, with a lot of
bottom, in a word, it kicks ass. The issues they sing or scream about are
mostly personal and apart from the little blandness mentioned above, they
are straightforward and emotional. How do they sing on “ourselves,
mirrored in windows”? “it may not be poetry, it may not be written with
the best lines, but it comes from the inside, with all the anger I got.”
And if so, I guess it is okay. I also like the little hint at hardcore roots
in the words to the song “forgotten times, forgotten names” with “in
the salad days of my youth”, in which I am able to read the names of three
or maybe even four legendary hardcore bands.”
