Ex Everything - Slow Change Will Pull Us Apart [CD]

Neurot Recordings

£12.22

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: NR127
Barcode: 795154141227
Release Date: 17 Nov 2023
Genre: Post-Hardcore

Neurot Recordings are proud to announce the debut album from recent signings and Bay Area post-hardcore quartet, Ex Everything, featuring current and former members of Kowloon Walled City, Early Graves, Mercy Ties, Blowupnihilist, Less Art and others.

The music is a fusion of Dischord-influenced math rock and noisecore, a nuanced rage that refuses to accommodate the passive listener. Jon Howell’s percussive, angular playing is as impressive as it is baffling, with malformed chords and abstract melodies that still burrow effortlessly into your brain. Dan Sneddon’s drumming is a stampede of frenetic time signatures, deceptively understated patterns and anthemic bashing, while Ben Thorne’s bass roils underneath like a ship’s hull scraping the ocean floor.

Ex Everything have hope for the future. The caveat? “Hope without action is meaningless”. For this band, action comes in the form of creation, and creation comes in the form of frenetic, raw music, full of rage but driving for change in the system and in our lives.

Their debut full-length Slow Change Will Pull Us Apart arrives on the 10th November, and with this announcement the band shares the opening track, "The Reduction Of Human Life To An Economic Unit"

The band’s true skill, though, lies in how their instruments interlock, the structuring of movements that grow songs from rotted dirges to triumphant war cries, rhythmic tension building until a riff explodes it into something unexpected and completely satisfying. Notably, the band welcomes Andre Sanabria to take over vocal duties, “Andre has been a musical force in all his previous bands. His vocal intensity is compelling,” Howell says. Sanabria screams like he’s trying to tear the songs apart, though he manages to find moments of almost zen-like contemplation. It’s a deft and mesmerising performance, aided by his deeply thoughtful lyrics about, as Howell says, the steady dismembering of the things that bind us.Whilst the album is a depiction of people losing connection with each other, the shows that the band put on see their audiences coming together in catharsis and fighting back against this separation. In this case, hope inspires action - a knock-on effect of community through art.

A 1. The Reduction of Human Life to an Economic Unit 2. Exiting the Vampire Castle 3. Detonation in the Public Sphere 4. A Sermon in Praise of Corruption B. 4. Slow Cancellation of the Future 5. Feral City 6. The Last Global Slaughter 7. plunder, Cultivate, Fabricate