08.02.21 | Alex Sievers
Come on feel the noise of The Armed on ‘All Futures.’
The Armed make a beautifully obtuse and cacophonous racket. Short of just lazily and lamely calling it “music,” I always refer to their releases as a kind of “experimental-hardcore and noise-pop,” as it’s the closest articulation of what they create. Especially when showing brand new initiates this confounding band’s work and when talking about their exceptional 2018 LP, ‘
Beyond all that genre lines bullshit,
The Armed are probably the only true Maximalist hardcore band out there right now: forgetting the past, creating their own future, all the while making something new as they burn any idea of expectation and convention to the ground by pushing everything to the ultimate extreme without any compromise. It’s heavy, hooky deconstructionism that’s about love, not hate. It’s all in the name of this newest song: not the future of just one person or any one genre, but all of them,