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Album review: Microwave – Let’s Start Degeneracy
Atlanta indie-emos Microwave dabble in otherworldly sounds on fourth album, Let’s Start Degeneracy.
Just four Boston men trying to figure out how to live their lives, making some punk rock along the way.
Punk band Labor Hex have serious Massachusetts pedigree – their line-up features members of Read Yellow, Red Chord, Doom Riders, Phantom Glue, and Wormwood – but you can hear shades of Hot Snakes, Drive Like Jehu, Fugazi, Jesus Lizard in their music. You can also hear four pissed-off grown men, still figuring things out, still mad at the crushing monotony of everyday life.
"All I know is that it feels incredible to scream at the top of my lungs," says frontman Evan Kenney. "This was the first time that I had ever played music with these guys, as I was just an indie rock man-child in the midst of a total mental breakdown, so I guess that [the band] found me at a good point in my life to be in a punk band."
That sounds about right. Check out their debut EP, Lost In Calling, right here: