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Here it is! Gainesville's CURLEYS are back with their debut full length. 11 short, brash, blistering jams in just over 14 minutes. Hot out the gate and never taking a breath, Curleys got the fastest strum in the business and the entire album buzzes like a swarm of angry hornets. Wound tight and ready to bite. Never has a clean guitar sounded so nasty. They even drop some bongos down the stairs on 'Sewercuck.' This isn't TOTAL PUNK this is the TOTALEST PUNK and 100% CURLEYS. Get on board or get out of the way!!!!
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Our take: We loved Curleys’ debut 7” on Total Punk from a few years ago, and this new 12” picks up right where that one left off. Definitely on the more hardcore end of the Total Punk spectrum, Curleys play fast and hard without exception, their super short songs coming at you rapid-fire, without breaks, exceptions, slow parts, or anything that breaks their jittered flow. Even with such narrow parameters, Curleys imbue their music with so much personality. There’s the fucked beyond belief guitar sound, which is blown to shit but still conveys the weird, epileptic rhythms that give these songs so much of their distinctive character. Then there are the vocals, snotty yet garbled, an occasional slogan like “Florida Fights Back” or “We Say No” gurgling up from the primordial soup. While these songs are hardcore punk, they’re played with a sense of total abandon I associate with Hasil Adkins or Dexter Romweber, boiling primordial rock and roll down to its essence, stripping it of anything that doesn’t contribute to the explosive raw energy. By the time they get to the closing track, the strikingly named “Sewer Cuck,” they nearly hit the two-minute mark and even have a kinda melodic guitar line in there, which sounds like Rush next to the minimalistic self-flagellation that comprises the rest of this record.