If you don't like The Melvins or the Jesus Lizard, stop reading. If you do, you're about to have a new favorite band. Fight Amp (formerly Fight Amputation) takes everything you should love about crust punk and makes it both grittier and more streamlined, at the exact same time. Every song has structure, but always gives way to an organized chaos of feedback and orderly disorder. I dug their 2008 release "Hungry For Nothing", but was absolutely blown away by their recently released "Manners & Praise". No filler. No let-up. Riff after riff. Never too smart for it's own good, yet never dulled down for casual listens. You can't just have this record on. It needs, no, requires one's full attention...And repeated listens.
I went back and found some of their out of print demos and 7"s when they were still known as Fight Amputation and I eagerly await their arrival.
This is a top ten record of 2009 for sure.
"Lungs" (live):
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