the breaking project

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The Breaking Project was a 5-piece punk band in Rochester, NY. Once upon a time, there was a croosh hardcore band that totally dominated and was too smart for its own good. With 11 tracks clocking in at exactly one hour in length, The Breaking Project’s latest release is an almost seamless amalgamation of 70s prog-rock and modern tech-core, creating a brutal concept album. I can tell how good a CD is by how often I find myself wanting to listen to it. This record, which is the first full-length by the band, makes me want to invest in some batteries for my Discman. And for the whole hour, I heard a section get repeated on only one of the songs. This BrokenHeart Records release owns. Vocalist Josh Kirby has honed the atrocious, hideous falsetto heard on previous EPs to sound less obnoxious this time around. The vocals are still higher pitched than most hardcore tends to be, but it now comes across as if his face is melting as he screams in agony at the listener. This has a strange (but not exactly disliked) affect conveying the unintelligible, hyper-intelligent lyrics. For example, the first song on the album, “Ephemeral Dialogue Between Light and Film,” (which I’m assuming is only superficially about photography) goes something like, “Granular representations of unfiltered plasma suspended images engage in cranial pong.” The lyrics seem to have been manufactured by a computer that selects random, uncommon words and strings them together adding punctuation at! ran.dom inter

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