Cavalier Activity Blue Vinyl 7″
Granted I don’t keep up with the “screamo” scene much anymore but I was surprised to see that ¡APESHIT! hailed from Brooklyn, NY. Upon first listen to Cavalier Activity the band sounds straight out of the Italian or French screamo scene and that’s a great compliment for an American band to get. Bands like Daitro, Suis La Lune, Raein, etc. have dominated that scene over their American counterparts it seems. But upon further review ¡APESHIT! don’t really bother with all the melodic interludes or the emo breakdowns of the aforementioned bands. Instead the band thrashes their way beyond any harmonious compromise. In fact, no song reaches past the minute and a half mark. Seven songs in barely seven minutes. Yet Cavalier Activity isn’t devoid of musicality like so much thrash typically can be. You could perhaps compare these guys to Richmond, VA’s Brainworms as both bands seem to operate in the same spastic neighborhood. But ¡APESHIT! are doing it within even less framework…and it works. Go figure.
Label: Mother Chorizo
this is a good seven. way more 90s emo violence than 21st century european screamo (which is a great thing in my book, the euro style has burned itself out for me).