fIREHOSE - From Ohio LP mag Housewives invert these powerful totems

Housewives invert these powerful totems to their own ends

Devo's herky-jerk in the rhythm section

now they have diversity

Kim Salmon and the Surrealists

sample-based minimal textures of Half Free

fIREHOSE - From Ohio LP mag Housewives invert these powerful totemsFIREHOSE offers sophisticated but spiky punk rock that is inventive, compact, crisp and precise. Never merely noisy, the band are a tight, muscular unit capable of using brief musical pauses or sudden shifts in direction for punch just as much as speed, dexterity and volume. The bass and the drums are unusually prominent in the mix, sometimes stealing the show. During their slickest moments FIREHOSE can actually groove like a jazz band, but overall