by Dan Goldin (@post_trash_)
Feel It Records (The Cowboys, Slump, Protruders) have been on a hot streak several years long, releasing some of the best punk, garage rock, psych, and hardcore in recent years. Hardcore in particular, the label has tapped into a classic 80’s sound, one that recalls the days of Minor Threat and Black Flag, with both last year’s exceptional Fried Egg album and now the full length debut from Baltimore’s Cold Feet. After a handful of demos, tour tapes, and a 7” EP, the band are set to release the eight song Punk Entity via Feel It on April 3rd and its quickly becoming a personal favorite over here. Quick, brash, trashy, and without restraint, Cold Feet’s hardcore is sharp and punishing, with a big blistering rage that doesn’t waste a moment. It explodes directly upon ignition, with a special kind of ferocity and disgust that we’ve been missing.
“Peyote Death” is the album’s second single (following the great “Good Book”) and essentially the album’s centerpiece, a song that at 1:56 in length feels like it’s at a leisure pace, at least for the calm-before-the-storm almost-psych intro of feedback and sun-soaked grooves. Those glimmers of light fade into a swarm of frantically barked vocals and skittering SST riffs, pulling the distortion into red and shoving it forward, with a reckless hurdling motion. It’s deranged and full of harsh yelps and shredding guitar lines, and it’s built on that specific kind of tension release we could all use these days.