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Brooklyn, NY's DEAR TONIGHT manage to create a record that both harkens back to better days of hardcore and manages to push the genre forward by leaps and bounds. Drawing comparisons to revolution summer era D.C. post hardcore, late 90's San Diego floorcore bands, and even basement punk rock bands from days gone by, DEAR TONIGHT craft all these elements together to form something unique, furious, passionate, and uncomfortably confrontational.ÊThe inventive and spastic rhythm section isn't afraid to switch from slow grinding to thrashy beats at a moments notice. The competing guitars build upon each other and fight for attention. All of this servesÊto supportÊthe cathartic and chaotic vocals. With lead singer Ryan Duffy (a writer and TV host for Vice magazine and VBS.TV) penning lyrics that cover topics from the personal (ideas of masculinity, maturity, and alienation), to the political (wars waged for profit and religion, political stagnation), one of the best lyricists in punk rock crafts a record that leaves the listener feeling uneasy and unnerved. "I am the reason we're told to trust ideas and not people, because the kids will let you down. Try, and though we might believe in what we sing, we will fail" We're Not Men is 12 songs that have critics calling DEAR TONIGHT the next REFUSED, the next AGAINST ME!, or even the next RITES OF SPRING. WeÊwould neverÊmake such claims ourselves, butÊI do think no record has managed to make me feel so distressed and angry, energized, or invigorated with the idea ofÊwhat hardcore can do, in quite a few years.
FOR FANS OF: ANGEL HAIR, RITES OF SPRING, DILLINGER 4