I was actually looking forward to playing this CD – being a fan of New Found Glory, I was excited to hear the first release from Chad Gilbert and Ian Grushka’s label Broken Sounds. When I read the press pack and saw that the first CD to be released on the label was an album of Hardcore I was even more excited as Hardcore is probably one of my favourite genres and I like the vast majority of Hardcore bands. Suffocate Faster however are another matter, and this album really was a great disappointment.
What I was expecting to be an exciting street-core record is in fact a dull, uninspirational hardcore CD where every song sounds exactly the same and if it wasn’t for short gaps between songs you wouldn’t know where one song ends and the next one begins. This really is one of the worst records that I have heard in a long time – it is quite short at only half hour long, but this half hour will be the longest half hour of your life as the band slowly drones on through their monotonous album of sheer tedium.
If you like Hardcore, then I suggest that you don’t check this album out as it may put you off Hardcore for life. It really is a useless album, after today the only use I may get out of this CD is as a coaster, or perhaps a Frisbee.
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UK based film graduate with a huge passion for music, sports and video games.
