"I took a peak in the wrong window"
Los Angeles based The Lungs are stoked to release their debut album "Psychic Tombs" dropping on October 16th via Dune Altar. The first sonic glimpse is the jack hammer to the head, Wrong Window. The post punk alt hardcore trio of brothers Trevor and Dylan Howard and Billy Goldstein have a declarative mission statement / mantra concerning the band's aesthetic: “make it visceral” and I will add "make it fucking loud".
Wrong Window from the very onset is exquisitely powerful, the band dispensing violent sideways punches of sounds with a caustic vocal onslaught that is equally hardcore and that is not usually the case when it comes to this kind of battering ram alt rock. And, it is, of course, highly visceral and metal / hardcore cinematic.
Wrong Window is a bloody hellish vision of a feral road worn half dead hero with a chain saw in each hand and a scythe duct taped to each ankle exacting eviscerating vengeance on an army of ku klux klan zombies (at least to me).
[While The Lungs’s music is grounded in punk rock, the band borrows the frenetic spirit of hardcore, the immortal energy of rock and roll, and the discordance and rhythmic complexity of post-hardcore, channeling these into an undeniably commanding cacophony that is sure to become the next pandemic. Add to that, the band has something to say, addressing issues ranging from substance abuse to mental health collapse and collective economic pressures.]
-Robb Donker Curtius
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THE LUNGS have a mantra: “make it visceral,” and with their dynamic live performances and series of independently released EPs, this Los Angeles-based punk power trio has been doing just that since 2016. Driven by the daily hand-to-mouth grind that they and their fellow Angelenos endure, and fueled by the macro volatilities that sparked the anger of so many Americans, The Lungs express their discontent with a surge of infectious post-hardcore dynamism.
The band formed after San Fernando Valley based musicians Trevor Howard and Billy Goldstein exchanged some home demos and realized that they were writing music for the same band… all they needed was a drummer. After hearing these demos, it took little convincing for powerhouse drummer Dylan Howard, Trevor’s brother, to agree to join the pair in their mission. The trio quickly set to work on their debut self-titled EP, which they released in 2017. They followed this with 2018’s Bodysnatchers EP, a split 7” with Total Massacre entitled Church + State in 2019, and a slew of kinetic live shows.
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