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The Long Walk Whippersnapper |
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"A New Chapter" begins by violently tearing out the old, throwing them in the air and in a sudden burst of light speed, you're lost and helpless in this frenzied world of distortion and bombast. Whippersnapper, true to their name though I'd guess not quite what the old folks had in mind, come out swinging, flailing wildly and connecting often with their brand of highly-strung Hard-Core and all at once hot flashes of hysteria over take you, the listener, now, hanging on for dear sanity. Subjectively, the matter is clear, "The Long Walk" is a deeply embedded search for answers to life's little forays into the forest of the unfounded… "Equations," really offers the first chance to straighten yourself from the stealthily thrashing fit of the earlier tracks, and here barely a third of the way in, you discover an album worth its weight in wattage. With far reaching vocals, dueling guitar riffs and generally palpitative tempos set to complex verses and even less settled choruses… it's been branded "Emo-Core" and rightfully so, and rightfully also in that its difficult to grasp and pin down to any one subtlety in particular. Consider it an almost grungier form of Metal with AOR-like richness in the rare moments of constraint and yet comfortably quartered in precipitated surroundings of all sorts-combine the elements of Stretch Armstrong and Zao in their triadic extremes, while adorning the ingratiating moments of the more tunefully varied Align, Propaghandi or Gameface… and Whippersnapper, anatomical separatists of an intuitive sort. released by Lobster Records Review by Vinnie Apicella
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