Post-hardcore is a genre we don’t touch much about round these parts. Although I have strong feelings about a number of its shining examples, a fair amount of it is also unmitigated crap (Asking Alexandria, Enter Shikari), and a lot of the acts I do like are no longer current – it’s a scene that seemed to have had its day a few years back, from the earlier success of At The Drive-In to the more experimental These Arms Are Snakes. Given our propensity to, you know, post about current bands, perhaps it’s right that we don’t talk about it much.
Thankfully there are a few bands still carrying the torch, and proving that it’s not just hardcore-lite with pussy vocals. Glassjaw I’ve mentioned before, but letlive. (always with the full stop) have recently come to my attention, and have given me hope for a dying art.
