CLOROX DREAM - The Reflection of Discontent

Опубликовано: 14 Март 2025
на канале: Jimmy

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Some of you may recall a little fastcore band called "AxRxM" -- or, alternatively, "Apathetic Ronald McDonald", if you actually wanna go by the Californian group's long-handed moniker. Back in 2016, I uploaded what I believe to be the group's final demo ( • AxRxM - Mid-2016 Demo ). The band's lead vocalist, Eddie, did briefly mention the possibility of new material to coincide with the group's newly-formed line-up, but as far as I'm aware, nothing concrete came of it. That brings us to late 2019. AxRxM is most assuredly dead, and slamdancing atop its grave is LA's Clorox Dream: the latest hyper-destructive powerhouse to be formed by two members of the defunct group, along with a new drummer who comes from a decorated background in doom metal and sludge. Described as a "combined effort of three schools of influence", Clorox Dream is a scorching amalgam that successfully congeals the aforementioned metal influences -- embracing a newfound sense of darkness and precision -- with the guitarists "chatty", rapid-fire hardcore riffage, along with Eddie's frenzied, sharply-voiced poeticism that had previously helped define AxRxM's breed of auditory chaos. "The Reflection of Discontent" is an album that holds an unequivocal reverence for psychotic thrashiness, the same sort that makes powerviolence as cathartic as it is, while not being afraid to leave room for thought and emphasis. The album is prone to these moments of melodic transience, ebbing away from the hyperactive drumbeats and manic chord-shifts for a mid-tempo stomp that instead gestates in nasally riffs and the occasional vocal rotation. It's stupid-fast and disorderly, but... not stupid-fast and disorderly enough to detract from the potential ear-catching hook or a thrash-worthy breakdown. If that makes any sense. I dunno. It's fast, it's mean, but it's kinda... demonstrative of a little more than your average powerviolence act. I mean, the lyrical content is mostly centered around broken love, if that gives any insight on the type of headspace these songs occupy. Not that you'd ever be able to discern that much from Eddie's throat-rending wails, of course. Clorox Dream is the type of band that I'd wanna listen to when I simultaneously feel like crying into my pillow, and beating the ever-living shit out of it.

Yeah. I could use some of that.

TRACK LIST:
Intro (Upper) - 0:00
For My Bends - 0:40
Breaking A Vase - 1:45
Count All The Flies - 3:00
Without Welcome - 4:23
My Ambitions - 4:52
Strawberry Marlboro - 5:28
Somewhere Else - 6:23
Paper For The People - 7:47
(Downer) - 8:44
Outro (Ghastly) - 9:25

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