The Needle Drop: 11-14-12
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Code Orange Kids- “Flowermouth”
Hardcore punk outfit Code Orange Kids have what’s probably going to be a heavy, punishing debut full-length coming out on Deathwith Inc. very soon. I’m assuming it’ll be out this year, but Deathwish doesn’t exactly have the release date explicitly posted on its site, so…
The album’s title: Love is Love // Return to Dust, and the track featured in the video above, “Flowermouth,” is so aggressive it’s eye-widening. It’s nothing but brutal production, brutal-er vocals, and some of the fiercest riffage you’ll hear in 2012.
Hear Code Orange Kids’ past work on Bandcamp.
Adventures- “Reach Out To You”
Members of the Pittsburgh hardcore punk band Code Orange Kids have assembled in a new project called Adventures. With this song, it seems they have embraced more of a post-hardcore style with swelling intensity in the emotion behind the vocals as well as the instrumentation. This leads to the ending of the song having a high amount of tension to it. Though it does not weigh quite as heavily as labelmates La Dispute’s brand of post-hardcore, it is definitely in the same emotional territory. They are set to release a 7″ in the future, but if this song is any indication of what they are cooking up I hope there is a full length album in the works.

