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A quick hit, but certainly a band worth more attention than they receive. This only has 2 days but currently sits with a price tag under $2. 

Moss Icon stumbled into my life late, or late as it would seem in the era where all music is immediately accessible at the point of knowing it exists, when I had begun to feel much of the current hardcore and punk music coming my way sounded boxed in and formulated. Moss Icon wasn’t some sort of revelation, rather a breath of fresh air. Particularly on this LP, the band colored outside the lines. They didn’t redraw the image, merely took their liberties to make it their own – like most of the greats.

While Moss Icon reflected a lot of the “revolution summer” aesthetics that they occasionally get tossed towards, but with a spastic sound that both exuded a looseness and melody and edge that much of that mid-era Dischord lacked. 

I could certainly think of many worse ways to spend $2. The song “The Life” is worth that alone.

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