"frail bray"
Year: 2020
Label: Fat Wreck Chords
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 11
Time: 36 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Punk Rock
Discogs , Download
"tremulous"
Year: 2017
Couuntry: US
City: San Francisco
Label: Fat Wreck Chords
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 11
Time: 32 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Punk Rock
"cognicide"
Year: 2017
Couuntry: US
City: San Francisco
Label: Fat Wreck Chords
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 11
Time: 32 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Punk Rock
Western Addiction is a punk rock band based in San Francisco. The band was formed by four veterans of the HC / punk scene in 2003. Some of the members work for Fat Wreck Chords. They have toured internationally in both the USA and Europe. While the San Francisco band’s sophomore effort comes nearly 12 years after their debut, don’t think they have grown out of hardcore. Tremulous rips its way through 11 explosive tracks, delivering a consistent sound strongly rooted in the past that is plenty aggressive and surprisingly melodic. It sounds like the same band that made Cognicide, just older, wiser - but still pissed off.A large part of that consistency can be attributed to the band’s current form, which consists of founding members Hall on vocals, Ken Yamazaki (also of Dead To Me) on guitar and Chad Williams on drums, as well as 2014 recruit Tony Teixeira moving to guitar. When it came time to record Tremulous, Western Addiction re-connected with original bassist, Tyson “Chicken” Annicharico, who was happy to assist his friends in the studio, adding another connection between the band’s past and present. He even had a hand in shaping Tremulous’ most intense song, the album-closing, five-and-a-half-minute dirge “Your Life Is Precious,” written in tribute to friend (and Enemy You frontman) David Jones, whose unexpected death in 2015 had a profound effect on the band. “I don’t usually write songs in one burst, but I did with that one—every single lyric means something very specific,” Hall says, going on to explain how the song features his first-ever attempt at singing. When he says singing, he really means singing, not your average hardcore throat-bellow. Luckily, he had one of punk’s finest vocalists, Joey Cape, in the producer’s seat for Tremulous, who coaxed him to new heights in his overall performance. “One of the things we asked Joey to work on with us was vocal melodies. He had great input on many songs, especially ‘Ditch Riders,’ ‘Taedium’ and ‘Your Life Is Precious.’” Tremulous fires off salvo after salvo of incendiary hardcore containing a surprising amount of melodicism, but Cape wasn’t the only member of the Fat Wreck family to offer assistance: Propagandhi’s Todd Kowalski delivers guest vocals on “Taedium” (“Propagandhi has continually influenced and enlightened my life, and I respect Todd as a human,” Hall praises). And while the bulk of the album was recorded with Cape and engineer Ian MacGregor in Los Angeles, the band finished up the vocals in San Francisco with Cape at Fat Mike’s Motor Studios.
Year: 2005
Label: Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 11
Time: 24 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Punk Rock
Discogs , Download
