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Open Palm Tapes is proud to release the US pressing of CUTRE's 2020 EP. This Buenos Aires band demonstrates their aggressive, unhinged sound on this six-track tape. If you like maniacal hardcore, this one is for you.
Our take: Open Palm Tapes brings us a domestic US pressing of the self-titled EP by this hardcore band from Buenos Aires, Argentina. I’m not sure whether Open Palm has a connection to the band or if it’s just something they plucked from Bandcamp and are bringing to a wider audience, but either way it’s easy to see how this caught their ear. Cutre plays clear, powerful, and straightforward hardcore punk, but with their own twist. The singer is charismatic and has a great snarl, relying on staccato cadences that bring to mind UK82 punk, but the music is dense, precise, and fast hardcore that’s rooted in the 80s tradition without sounding like a throwback. There are lots of interesting rhythmic change-ups, a couple of breakdowns, and a few moments of creepy-sounding Die Kreuzen-esque chording that remind me of Sorry State’s Lasso. Fans of intricate, well-written 80s-style hardcore with a defiant punk spirit will dig this.
Our take: Open Palm Tapes brings us a domestic US pressing of the self-titled EP by this hardcore band from Buenos Aires, Argentina. I’m not sure whether Open Palm has a connection to the band or if it’s just something they plucked from Bandcamp and are bringing to a wider audience, but either way it’s easy to see how this caught their ear. Cutre plays clear, powerful, and straightforward hardcore punk, but with their own twist. The singer is charismatic and has a great snarl, relying on staccato cadences that bring to mind UK82 punk, but the music is dense, precise, and fast hardcore that’s rooted in the 80s tradition without sounding like a throwback. There are lots of interesting rhythmic change-ups, a couple of breakdowns, and a few moments of creepy-sounding Die Kreuzen-esque chording that remind me of Sorry State’s Lasso. Fans of intricate, well-written 80s-style hardcore with a defiant punk spirit will dig this.