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In the same way there’s not much left to do with hip hop, punk and hardcore have ostensibly run their individual courses. It’s not the fault of bands still performing this sorta music, but hearing the same thing over and over again should have become pretty apparent at this point. So, it’s strange when new hardcore groups are held up as the pinnacle of the music. Remember Sex Vid? Yeah, they were pretty cool. But the band didn’t do anything at all unique. Their performances were mostly just Boston retreads. As a side, though, it’s interesting to note that at this late date, there’s not a buncha stuff that approximates Bad Brains or Minor Threat, Boston bands serving as an easier template to work with.

Whatever one’s opinion on the state of current musics, Durham’s Double Negative began issuing music back during 2007 or so, The Wonderful And Frightening World Of Double Negative being the band’s earliest long player. Given the band’s fan base, assumed to be an assortment of Southerners and hardcore hardcores, it’s not a tremendous surprise to find no one’s made mention of the fact that Double Negative’s album references the Fall pretty openly. In name only. The music here’s SSD/FUs pretty much all the way. What’s funny – and there’re a few things – is the band opening this disc with forty four seconds of feedback as if the gesture’s either artful or unique. It’s not.