{"id":3947,"date":"2016-10-13T12:20:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T12:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-dangers-the-bend-in-the-break\/"},"modified":"2018-03-22T23:29:57","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T23:29:57","slug":"album-review-dangers-the-bend-in-the-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-dangers-the-bend-in-the-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review:\u00a0Dangers – The Bend In The Break"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ever hear the name of a band, then listen to them and think the combination couldn’t be more perfect? That’s the vibe that Los Angeles’ Dangers<\/b> create on their third album ‘The Bend In The Break’<\/i>. A release that deals in vicious hardcore pummeling and torrents of looseness for a draining, but unequivocally exhilarating experience.<\/p>\n

At it’s hardest ‘The Bend In The Break’<\/i> puts Dangers<\/b> in spitting distance of hardcore’s top tier. Frontman Alfred Brown IV sounds like the lovechild of Every Time I Die’s Keith Buckley and Converge’s Jacob Bannon in his larynx-shredding shrieks. While tracks like ‘Softer Science’<\/i> and ‘Those Sad Plebes Down There’<\/i> pack in the very best of the genre’s modern day permutations, with full-throated gang-chants in the latter and full-on savagery in the former.<\/p>\n

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There’s also the evidence of Dangers<\/b>’s willingness to explore outside their own wheelhouse, as the album sees experimentation with post-punk and sludge come to the fore to break up the sheer hardcore fury. Opener ‘Human Noose’<\/i> is the frosty presage that leads into the chaos, while ‘Loose Cigarettes’<\/i> and ‘The Straight World’<\/i> are like sledgehammers coming down on your neck. Especially with Brown’s screams only adding to the claustrophobic nightmare.<\/p>\n

But that’s probably where the main problem with ‘The Bend In The Break’<\/i> emerges. The only sonic cohesion is the very thin thread of the vocals, making the relative cherry-picking of sounds fairly disorienting at times. But other than that this is a must for any hardcore fan’s collection. A powerful, vicious album that, if there’s any justice, should see Dangers<\/b> become stalwarts of the scene for years to come.<\/p>\n

4\/5<\/p>\n

‘The Bend In The Break’<\/em> by Dangers<\/b> is released on October 14th on Topshelf Records<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Dangers<\/b> links: Website<\/a>|Facebook<\/a>|Bandcamp<\/a><\/p>\n

Words by Luke Nuttall (@nuttall_luke<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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