Gunner Reality Soldier EP
Totally violent hardcore from Perth, featuring members of the now defunct SEMTEX 87. Reality Soldier sounds absolutely brutal, each track a blown-out burst cranked all the way up. The guitars are a fuzzy wall of noise, the vocals bark along foaming at the mouth, and the drumming is particularly gnarly, recklessly pounding away with plenty of machine gun fills peppered in throughout. GUNNER has some great song titles too, paying homage to Abel Ferrera’s infamous sleaze-fest with “The Bad Lieutenant,” as well as the brilliantly lifted “Here Comes the Warm Jets,” a song that is definitely not a cover of BRIAN ENO. Excellent and mean, for fans of Youth Attack Records.