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Freshkills

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Location: Brooklyn, NY

Website: http://freshkillsband.com/

Bio: Freshkills – yes, one word – are a five-piece tour guide to the lives, awkward conversations and head games that play out deep into the ... (more) night in New York City's dark bars and messy bedrooms. Each protagonist is motivated by sordid appetites, like moths attracted to blackness. Each song has the sound and feel of a mini-apocalypse.

The band comprises of vocalist Zachary Lipez, guitarists Johnny Rauberts and Timothy Murray, bassist Mitchell Jordan and drummer Jim Paradise. The influences most at work are Nation of Ulysses and Drive Like Jehu, as the band combines the lyrical flair of the former and the chops of the latter. Lipez's red-lining vocals are infused with paranoia, aggravation and twisted vulnerability. The rhythms - though rarely slow - are controlled, ominous and sometimes hypnotic. The twin-guitar work is droning and breathtaking, and leads are rare.

The band recently completed their second, currently-unnamed, LP, produced by Alex Newport (AT THE DRIVE-IN, THE LOCUST, TWO GALLANTS). It delivers emphasizing hooks and streamlined song structures, without sacrificing any of their dissonance, dark sarcasm, or cutting social commentary. The effect is brand new material that is immediate, unsettling and lasting.
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