EX EVERYTHING
Slow Change Will Pull Us Apart NEUROT RECORDINGS
Acerbic noise rock alliance find their collective sweet spot
Featuring current and former members of Kowloon Walled City, Early Graves and others diving headfirst into the Dischord and Gravity Records catalogues, Ex Everything are waving a chaotic banner. Andre Sanabria may spit out the lyric ‘Sometimes I lose my temper / Just to pass the time’ in lead-off track The Reduction Of Human Life To An Economic Unit, but there’s nothing casual about the manner in which this quartet zero in on the prickly combination of twangy, saloon doorkicking guitars and alowend rumble designed to drain bowels at 50 feet. Fortunately, all that bonerattling tonal heaviness has a populism breathed into it. Even those not normally attuned to irascible noise rock will notice the keen sense of melody in the spidery Detonation In The Public Sphere and the danceable shimmy propelling Slow Cancellation Of The Future.