Drug Church continue their dynamic post-hardcore march on ‘Cheer’
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Drug Church continue their dynamic post-hardcore march on ‘Cheer’

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Driving the same gritty hardcore train as The Bronx, Gallows and Culture Abuse, Drug Church’s third studio album Cheer is made of ten hard and fast tunes. 

‘Unlicensed Hall Monitor’ reads from the post-hardcore playbook established by New York band Gorilla Biscuits while also evoking the sound of their own 2015 breakthrough EP Swell.

‘Avoidarama’ is soaked in a bitter irony, potentially the calling card of an over-informed and over-exposed generation with the lyrics: “I’d rather end it / Few seconds I’m out / Find an oven, stick my head in / I’ll let you know how it ends.”

Drug Church’s lyrics have more sardonic inferences than a Bukowski novel so surely the irony is not lost on them that they are signed to Pure Noise, a Sony subsidiary with a roster packed with gimmick screamo bands like Hawthorne Heights and Senses Fail. 

Let’s just hope when the zeitgeist rolls over, Drug Church’s style of music does not become a clichéd and bastardised version of authentic hardcore punk.

8/10