Assassination Collective
Fight, Or Assimilate and Die
LP (2006, Independent)
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Assassination Collective aim to inspire real change with their music, and to expose (in their words) a “culture industry which keeps musicians and audiences blind to the exploits of capital”. Their motivations give them energy, but the music — a retread through the past twenty-five years of hardcore punk — rarely offers up a sonic charge to match their words. The problem is that this sound — a trebly, amphetamine-paced thrash — doesn’t scare anybody, anymore. Fear is a great motivator, as Assassination Collective are obviously aware — what they need to do now is apply this insight to their music, to make it genuinely brave and disorientating. There are a few hair-raising moments here, though. ‘Brass Knuckles’ teeters between an awkward, choppy riff and molten noise full of desperate screaming, while ‘Rock N Roll Euthanasia’ turns the tables on its audience: “Shut up and dance/ Cause that’s your role”. Don’t we know it.
by Emmy Hennings
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