For Self Defence by Pascagoula

Where post rock dissonance meets hardcore danceability, For Self Defence by Pascagoula emerges, showcasing a version of low-and-slow heavy music that sacrifices its tendency towards the grandiose for a penchant for the strange. Audiences that crave the moshable breakdowns of hardcore will find plenty to celebrate here, but a meandering bass and rejection of clean tonality set Pascagoula aside from some of their contemporaries. The bass and guitar take turns destabilizing the music’s harmonic structure, with spidery, dissonant riffs that weave through high-pitched, melodic bass lines, creating a massive midrange guitar sound. Topping this off-kilter style with lyrics that strike aggressively at some of the most pathetically unempowering, genuinely dark human emotions fosters the creation of anti-anthems. We flail about to the sound of our own implosion, a bone-rattling, hair-raising symphony of brute force that gives a frightening voice to our deepest trauma.