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"The Forgotten" The Control |
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They go from "The" Control to "No" Control in the span of about eleven ear splitting seconds… and then about five minutes later the CD is done, finished, fired, fried and one big four track blur that whizzed by you like a bullet bonding with your brain and you sit and think to yourself… "Now goddamn, that's the shit!" And don't tell me they spent the previous six months… let's put it this way, what exactly took six months from recording and mixing to mid summer shelving? Aha, so there must lay another eight or twelve hidden tracks we're missing somewhere… though they're expecting a full length sometime in early '03. So they're Buffalo natives, The Control, and take absolutely no cues from… The Goo Goo Dolls, or any other Nordic narcotic bore of the barren waste where the poor bastards may still roam. "The Forgotten" EP is four fiery cuts from the same cloth as early age ("Of Quarrel?") Hardcore and today's Speed Punk merchants reared on rage and the art of distrust, disdain, and label hopping alacrity; nerve agent noise mongers bleeding a lifetime's worth of wounds within stark, seconds only lyrics and a fly by verse with a melodic metal lick or two thrown in for separatist strategy… thus offsetting the notion that one long trail of bitterness and bloodshed's been simply spliced into four easy pieces. Rejoice fans of the as yet unheralded that remain firmly entrenched in darkness, eyes shallow and shut, consumed and united in refusal of reliance, acceptance… pain over progression. Released by Go Kart Records Review by Vinnie Apicella [va85@columbia.edu] P.O. Box 20252
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