{"id":2438,"date":"2017-04-25T10:24:17","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T10:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/review-howls-the-headache\/"},"modified":"2017-04-25T10:24:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T10:24:17","slug":"review-howls-the-headache","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/review-howls-the-headache\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Howls &#8211;\u00a0The Headache"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/6ccfabb8e4c9154aa55d75721e2f192e\/tumblr_oovkx8tQjc1r8no6so6_1280.jpg\" width=\"250em\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<figure>Sometimes, you just really want to listen to some pure filth. You want to lose yourself in a record that feels like dirt beneath your fingernails and yellow setting into your teeth. You want to experience a record that sounds like you&rsquo;re swinging from the ceiling in a seedy basement in the middle of the wildest house party of your life. Luckily, bands like <b>Howls<\/b> exist to quench such a ferocious thirst. After injecting a bit of life into the underground punk scene with the deliriously brutal EP <i>\u2018No Living&rsquo;<\/i> back in 2015, the time has come for them to try and spread the same sort of energy across a full-length. The good news is they smash it.<\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>What is most impressive about <i>\u2018The Headache&rsquo;<\/i> is how much <b>Howls<\/b> manage to squeeze into such a fast-paced full-length. There is snarling aggression one minute and quivering tensions the next. There is party starting riffing one moment and all out apocalyptic heaviness a moment later.<\/p>\n<p><!-- more --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/truthseekermusic.bandcamp.com\/album\/the-headache\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Headache by Howls<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Though on the surface this is a no holds barred punk record, if you dig a little deeper there is so much to discover. There is a level of craft and care you don&rsquo;t usually get with music this scrappy and raucous, and an intensity that often doesn&rsquo;t come across as sharp as it should. The result is a set of songs that are as individual and boundary-pushing as they are raw and familiar.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u2018The Headache&rsquo;<\/i> is an understatement. This is an absolute head battering. This is punk at its most visceral, clever, devastating, grooving and most importantly dark. <b>Howls<\/b> have filled a hole in punk that had slowly but surely been getting bigger with an album that holds nothing back and leaves nothing to chance. Now, bang your bloody head.<\/p>\n<p>3.5\/5<\/p>\n<p><i>&lsquo;The Headache&rsquo;<\/i> by <b>Howls<\/b> is released on 28th April on <b>Truthseeker Music<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Howls<\/b> links: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/howlsofficial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>|<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/howlsofficial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Words by Jack Rogers (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackMRog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JackMRog<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, you just really want to listen to some pure filth. You want to lose yourself in a record that feels like dirt beneath your fingernails and yellow setting into your teeth. 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