Get Back Up "Weathering the Storm"

Hailing from whatever benevolent band-birthing machine keeps filling the bandscape with incarnations of the straightforward hardcore stalwart, Get Back Up sounds mighty similar to any number of bands -- Ambitions, Sinking Ships, etc. -- whose names you could draw out of a hardcore hat.

Years into this resurgence of frill-free hardcore, it's somehow refreshing. Part a reaction against the diluted playlists poisoning popular radio, part opposition to posturing fashionistas infiltrating the scene, Weathering The Storm is niche music for the ripped jeans and hoodie crowd.

Get Back Up's workmanlike formula meshes speedy and simple guitar work with hard, pinpoint drumming, layers of gruff shouting and gang-chants. Breakdowns are sprinkled throughout the torrent, but not enough to insult one's intelligence. I've already reviewed this album one hundred times. You probably already own ten copies of this album. But, as much as I bemoan the homogenization of music, this is one of those simple-as-pancakes recipes I can't deny.

Galvanizing isn't it? Get Back Up - "Years Away"

Stormchase over to Organized Crime Records and pick up the album.