WATERDOWN
The Files You Have On Me (Victory Recs)
Reviewed by Jason Thornberry

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"We recorded everything live," Waterdown bassist Christian Kruse reveals. Being able to "feed off each others' energy" gives these thirteen songs a momentum the Big Studio and Bob Rock couldn't touch. It's impossible to imagine hardcore as complex in structure not being wrung from hundreds of takes and overdubs of ping-pong guitars (A Fortress), stop/start drumming (Bulletproof), or the give and take of the two vocalists on Going Back, but somehow this German band keeps it as uncluttered as the magnetic tape on which it was eternized.

8/10

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