Counterparts - The Current Will Carry Us

Counterparts are a metalcore band from Ontario. I don't have much patience for metalcore these days as so much of seems generic circle jerking of uninspired pablum. But Counterparts new second LP The Current Will Carry Us is really quite great.   

There's an energy and an inspiration here that really pushes the songs over the top. I'm not as versed in metalcore as I was once so I can't be quite as wordy in explaining why these guys are awesome but rest assured they are.

The vocalist has a really great shout that can be either pure and clean or a deeper hoarse shout. The guitar never falls into the boring chugga chugga chugga bree bree bree of stereotypical metalcore even when the rhythms are a tad to well trod. The songs are put together very well, never falling apart or being boring and racing by at the speed of light.

polkagrind

So my friend created this new "genre". He calls it polkagrind. Basically its a bunch of grindcore screaming vocals over top of regular polka music.

Some examples

To be clear this is terrible and should not be listened to.

what the mail brought me

Today the mail brought me two tapes courtesy of Plastic Smile records a  D.I.Y. record label out of Dewitt, MI. The first is a compilation they produced iwontstopwonderinguntilyoustopbreathing, celestial being, in braille, eagle and arrow, aspergers, scum, chillax, lester freamon, 2049, stars as mirrors & aaiesieux

 The other is the latest tape from Iwontstopwonderinguntilyoustopbreathing 12 2011. It is the 12th tape Nolan's released this year and as the band became a one piece it only fueled his creativity. They have moved beyond a Jerome's Dream cover and developed their own hyper violent style