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Attempt Survivors
7+ albums
post-hardcore
about
Though the band’s moniker most directly summons to mind a failed suicide—the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline literally has a resource page entitled Attempt Survivors—the truth is that our lives are a series of sometimes interrelated, sometimes completely divergent attempts that are survived...until they’re not. Which is to say, Jim Morrison didn’t have to die in a bathtub to prove no one gets out of here alive. “You get yours, baby/I’ll get mine” is the truth that defines our lives: The race against time; the fight against death—whether bodily, spiritual, or artistic. “All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique,” James Baldwin argued when it came to the latter. “All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.” And this, more than anything, is the feeling that the music of Attempt Survivors evokes: A fuller story and sound, actualized through decades of separate preparation in a series of groundbreaking bands. (Go ahead and check that curriculum vitae: Helmet, Errortype: 11, Instruction, Saetia, Six Going on Seven, Big Collapse, Fires.) These diverse, nuanced post-post-hardcore songs are, essentially, a conversation between four individuals who have put in the Gladwellian ten thousand hours—and then some, if one counts overnight tour van journeys!—to develop the vocabulary necessary to have it. There are shades of recognizable precursors—80s goth, burly AmRep groove, expansive 70s rock, 90s emo
