Refrigerated Nurses Democracy’s Hands: Cooking the Chili 1991–1992 2xLP
Touted as “Northern Arizona’s first punk and hardcore band,” REFRIGERATED NURSES recorded two demos in the early 1990s, and here they are, forever preserved on red, black, and splattered white vinyl. The band had a bristling and speedy hardcore approach not too dissimilar from that of UK fastcore icons HERESY and CONCRETE SOX, powered by youthful enthusiasm and played with an unpolished DIY spirit. Of all the “high school band memories”-type releases out there, this one has the best song by far to reference chili-making as a metaphor for painful teenage angst.