COALESCE - Give Them Rope LP Noise

COALESCE - Give Them Rope LP Noise1997's "Give Them Rope" was the debut full length from Kansas City noise merchants Coalesce and the dawning of a new era in noisy, chaotic, metallic hardcore. Alongside Converge, Dillinger Escape Plan, etc., Coalesce would go on to help define the genre, throwing all time signatures and formula based music out the window. This landmark LP was originally released in 1997 on Edison Recordings, reissued by No Idea Records in 2008, and again my No Sleep

Slow-burning proto-industrial basement buzz with occasional vocals buried in the mix

Fugazi and Bikini Kill

They began to experiment with crude electronics and off-beat writing

This is gorgeous

It’s hard to pin down where or when these writings originate - some reflections seem recent whereas others echo from a distant past

It subtly continues Vrioon's calm melancholia

Edition of 500 copies *

Few groups in recent history forged as confounding and alchemical a body of work as Coil

and obscure vocal samples

equally energetic and impressive both in live and studio environments

having co-founded German Riot-Grrrl band elektrolochmann and Post-Hardcore band Monochrome in the 1990s

Both Charles Wood and Ryan Gage later went on to form Broken Hearts Are Blue with members from bands Ordination of Aaron and Current