Demolition Girl
This Place Is Designed to Kill Us and Make Us Think It's Our Fault
this album is so fucking good, very groovey, the vocal performance is so raw and cool mix and master isnt my favorite, kind of bass heavy sometimes? and also just a little low in volume sometimes, to the point where I adjusted it myself to avoid having to have to turn my music player up when it came on, but that’s a minor issue and now I’ve done that I have no complaints at all. I really appreciate the lyrics being posted on the bandcamp page, that’s what the lyrics section is for! And some of this would be impossible for me to understand otherwise! <3 Small note, theres a “Redux” version on youtube and spotify, though the bandcamp version doesnt say it. I can’t hear a difference on my laptop speakers, when I noticed this, but there might be one and maybe the mix/master is different on those! No Clue. :)
Overall
This album is really resonant to me, I can remember all the dark nights I had nothing else going for me, I would sit behind the counter at work feeling nothing on my feet for days, and then suddenly id remember this album and put it on, on the bus home in the morning as the sun was coming up and by the time Didnt think we’d make it this far was ending my eyes were welling up. I hadn’t cried to much music at the time and this really helped me break into it, it pulled at my heart, and HARD. A song to choke is another one of those songs that really breaks me down, “Ill be the first one” speaks to me on lots of levels about how im always so unsafe, so precarious but still sticking myself to the front of the line. Ill stand up and say what I have to say regardless of what happens, it feels so self assured, so ready and its really helped me feel better about my choices sometimes. This whole album does, for instance, googling random phrases about jk rowling being a TERF and by pure happenstance finding a musician in the same state as me (I didn’t know this for like 2 years,) whose making some of the sickest music I’ve heard, plus trans and angry and actively working to be happy and survive anyways, through it all? That really made me feel safer. Like there were people like me out there, who would be there for me when no one else was around, even if they don’t know me and probably never would. A few months after I found this album for the first time I found G.L.O.S.S. and that really fit into my heart too, there are a few other albums from the time that mean a lot to me but these two are the ones that I think I could recite back to you verbatim if I had the time. Eventually I’ll have to learn to play some of the songs on this album, though I think my rhythm needs a little work first, because I am getting teary eyed just writing this, and I know I won’t be able to play in time if I’m sobbing. I did my E shot today after missing it because I was struggling so bad last week, and I decided to listen to this album today right before doing it to get up the courage even though I’ve been doing it for a while now, because hey. I made it this far and I can make it a little farther, nothing is going to stop me except a head-on train crash, and even then it’s still gonna say my real name on my gravestone if my friends have to carve it in. I’m comfortable with who I am and I know the people around me will fight like hell with me, and that means I can fight like hell for all of them too. I have to, actually. I’m going to go do my injection, after I finish crying a little so I don’t jab myself in the wrong spot. I hope I can see your music live some time, demolition girl
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Viewed as a threat
Immediately straight into it, HxC on the nose, vocals are so crunchy in such a nice way and the slightly off rhythms and harmonics are so good. The drum sound is so good, its so short but gets the energy going just perfect
JK Rowling is a fucking TERF
Hell yeah she is, this song is how i found this album “You’ll never again have control of this body” fuuuck yeah the vocals are so cool, the rhythm is so good, this song has been stuck in my head for like 3.5 years The blunt and aggressive trans girl shit rules take my fucking body take my fucking heart give me the strength to smash his portrait and weep a past that ill tear apart
god i wonder if these lyrics are posted anywhere they kick so much ass (EDITORS NOTE: They were posted on the bandcamp page! I even said that earlier in this review!)
The Body They Hate
really good riff, simple but carries the whole song very well, unison with all the instruments is great weird time signature? the bass riff coming in is perfect, the loud drum rimshots are really tight and i get so hype the out of breath vocals are really unique, the raw kind of nasal sound of the higher clearer part is really a wonderful contrast and fits in the background of the song really well.
Didn’t think we’d make it this far
A nice change! Electronic kinda drum stuff? Really breaks up the rest of the album A anthem of surviving despite everything, despite our lives and struggles. here we are, what now? Bass is SO good, the tone is gorgeous and crunchy and crisp and makes me want to play bass more. This system isn’t better or stronger than us all, we’re okay sometimes despite it all. Lying on the floor
Chorus is catchy and that’s really cool
“We thought we’d fucked it all up” being a nice fake ending (3:03) is so good, it very evocative of the whole theme of the song, chanigng it to “didnt think /i’d/ make it this far” in the outro is really good too
Patriarch of the scene
Hey we’ve heard this rhythm before really tight, franctic fun “who the fuck gave you” the rhythm in everything here is SO good its so good and the extremely varied vocal performances and timbre is great. “same shit but a different- day” that little pause adds so much rhythmic interest 1:21 holding out the high crunchy chord just a little too long winds up being just really cool
Breaaaaakdown fuck yeah this makes me feel really good, and makes me smile. Sarcastic classic fun vocals and really groovy cool instrumental
A song to choke
This song is really emotionally resonant with me, it means a lot. Getting a lot out of that trescillo rhythm woo! The natural filtering of dropping down to just one guitar part without actually changing its tone is so good it makes it feel so lonely for a second i could. cum Ill be the first one in line well be the first ones this time sickest fucking bass part in the world and then it all comes back the groove is so good the vocals are so franctic again but it matches perfectly i want to turn it up so loud. Every time the harmonic rhythm changes its so good, i love that we spent so long pushing chords in whole notes and then spent a whole section on just one riff without developing it at all, except getting louder and cooler drum fills
“wouldn’t be the last time, wont be the last one, ill be the first one, wont be the last, ill be the first one out of time” so fucking. GOOD aaaa
Daughter//Sun
This song. is also really emotionally important to me, it got me through some real rough bits of working a dead-end gravure shift retail job. The intro is cool and the reverb and layered vocal parts are really good. Shows how well she can do clean chords too theyre great. “a volatile dance a choking song” really the vocals tell a lovely story of loss and trying to move on and what can you even do. The first 1:30 are just building up and getting so tense, then it changes to this content, lovely and loud and crunchy and i love my friends too. “but i can sing a note. and i can learn a song” This song really means so much to me i dont think i can overstate it “ill hold you with my body as your torniquette” its so self destructive sounding, sacrificing but also its lovely and sweet and resonant. The emotional changes in this section (3:00) are so. Cool and clear and well-aligned with the harmony. I feel like we’re building to something again, love and holding shit together even as it pulls apart. That vocal break into the bridge drum sectoin RULES, fakeout ending and coming in all together with that now super huge bass is amazing. I have to learn to play this song. “ And i can be a girl, and i can be a lover, mother, sister,” this song is about queer joy and love and holding each other together to me. The line “with my body as your torniquette” doesnt sound nearly so self destructive any more, it sounds lovely and wonderful, clean layered vocals and that horribly screechy ending is wonderful. Sounds like finally breaking
reminds me of that one she/her/hers song, family i think? something on the self titled: “Youre still my dad but im not your son”
Im so sick
intro is a lil emo and thats cool! “im screaming it” is really good, not a ton to say about this other than its really driving and the aggression is good, feeling scary ourselves and screaming and. meow. its good :) the ending leaves me hanging, i feel like i need to listen to this album for that sense of resolution but of course, its not resolved and thats ok, thats intentional.