Beta Voids Scrape It Off 10″
It would be easy to talk about the saxophone, but listen to BETA VOIDS hard-charge through brilliantly crafted, hardcore-tinged, multi-vocal blasts of punk, and you almost forget that there’s this weird woodwind layer lurking in the shadows on every track…so instead of talking about the saxophone, I think it’s better to just acknowledge its existence and move on. The songs, though —the songs are straight killers. Timeless, high-energy cuts that owe a debt to early California hardcore while firmly maintaining their own unique and expressive character. And “character” is really the word I’ve been looking for while I listen to Scrape It Off (again)—that’s the thing BETA VOIDS have, and it’s the quality that you don’t realize you’re missing in your punk until you hear it. Apparently they do things different in coastal Oregon.