Criminal Code’s first proper long-player deals twelve tracks of
technical precision matched with brickwall power. There’s a barbaric
impulse festering in the twisted hearts of this Tacoma threesome, but No
Device unfurls with dynamic tact and structural intricacy, sating its
every aggressive urge with surgical attention to detail. With a stark
palette of grizzly grays and off-white stains, Criminal Code details a
singular spectrum of punk both bleak and savage. Naturally, the hardcore
camp digs it because No Device extracts maximal strength from a few
instruments in a minimal amount of time, but taut brooding snaps into
serpentine guitar leads on enough songs for your death punk beholden to
break off a piece. At any rate, Criminal Code tears down your
descriptors and brings its own on No Device. A fiercely present,
assertive album that dictates its own terms, listeners will find their
go-to snappy little tags utterly inadequate and reductive. In the age of
vaguely negative-wave nouveau and post-punk pastiche, Criminal Code is a
colossal outfit casting its own long shadow.
(Deranged/ 2014)
REINHÖREN!!!This product was added to our catalog on Friday 20 February, 2015.
