Trash Talk - s/t

TTCollective
(2008)

Something good is going on here. In this day and age of Pro Tools, triggered drums and Metal Zone pedals, Trash Talk's 2008 self-titled offering stands apart from the hordes of overly polished modern hardcore records. Fast, ugly and pissed, twelve tracks clock in at under 15 minutes. While essentially playing a thrashy brand of hardcore, the Sacramento four-piece at times sound more akin to classic grind like Repulsion (sans the lyrical gore) than they do to their peers in the scene, blasting away with unbridled fury and grime. Credit is due to Steve Albini, who engineered/mixed the album in two days, for bringing a crude-but-organic quality to the recording, one which might have been an otherwise banal outing. A very important moral can be found here: slick production doesn't necessarily capture the rage this genre was built on.

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