SELFMINDEAD
At The Barricades We Fall (Solid State)
Reviewed by Jason Thornberry

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Named perhaps after a member of the Rubi Dragon squad (from Anarchy Online), Selfminded has some fantastic, random, lanky bursts of riffola, all of which bring to mind Fugazi era 2401 A.D. The vocals grated on me though, and just seemed like they're fairly secondary, or lesser to what the band is attempting to get across. It ended up being just some dull hollering & bitching about friends letting the singer down, and other social travesties.

"Can't believe what you say, you fraud, I can see right through you!"

The eleven tracks do pile up quite nicely regardless, but would have been better suited to a) somebody who could actually fucking sing or at least yell in key, or b) an instrumental album. Hey, the sans-verbal affair works for Godspeed.

"I'm getting bored with this culture."

I'm getting-gotten bored with Emo myself, and the adhesive residue of that culture is what keeps me from recommending this. Maybe next time.

GRADE: C+ (efinite-day otential-pay).

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