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...album chronicles a battle between Volcano!’s many explosive elements. “Fire Fire” catches the band at a lull, with carefully articulated guitar and foot-tapping drum rhythms working towards a flurry into post-hardcore virtuosity reminiscent of a relaxed Fugazi. That is, until the vocals jump back in halfway through and take the entire song down a deranged stream of consciousness (including sing-spat references to “the nape of my neck” and “my nipple and breast”) ending in yet another clash between...
...band has opened for the likes of Fugazi, Blood Brothers and Les Savy Fav, and while listening to the album it seems as though those more renowned bands may have lent the WPP more than guitar picks and groupies. But even with such a pedigree, the ironic demeanor and chronically short attention span of He Has the Technology may leave some listeners hoping for a more mature sophomore...
...thought you were going to go with the Fugazi," he says to the couple...
...time since then, things haven't got any easier. Such bands as Pearl Jam and Fugazi may be able to maintain their position without submitting to every industry demand for videos or major-label distribution. But for the most part, and with ever greater efficiency, the new is discovered, distributed and disarmed. (Hear that, Seattle; Athens, Georgia; Austin, Texas? Make one new move, and we'll send a planeload of advance scouts.) That in turn makes it harder to come up with much that's new. ("Unless people start wearing lumber," says the performer and fashion watcher Sandra Bernhard, "there...
Despite a few innovative moments, many of the songs on In on the Kill Taker sound like tunes from the quartet's 1991 CD, Steady Diet of Nothing; and come to think of it, that album sounded a lot like the band's 1990 release, Repeater. Fugazi's greatest achievement, however, is not its music but its idealism. And idealism repeated over and over in the face of potentially corrupting success is a tribute to itself. Fugazi is living, punk-rocking proof that, as one of these new tracks says, "if it's not for sale...