Have Sydney’s Histamine made a record that will unite the crusts and the cleanshirts? The dangly earring havers and the hardcore 4 hardcores? Who am I to speculate on the shifting tribal lines of inner city music subcultures???
Anyway this 4-song record is particularly raging, immediately bringing to mind Urban Blight, The Rival Mob, Back To Back and Impalers.
On one hand Histamine have a raw, no-BS approach, but then again they've purposely f’d with the fidelity and added some King Tubby style fx providing a crude, cavernous atmosphere. Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty good!
- Nic