Spiritiste Excommunication Hymns LP
One interesting thing about post-hardcore is that it often comes from places that aren’t otherwise giant hubs for bands or music (relatively speaking, of course). Hailing from Baton Rouge, SPIRITISTE offers up ten tracks of emotional hardcore on their newest release. There are for sure some strong tracks here, including lead single “Transagion Prayer” and closing track “A Sheep’s Last Defense.” Not the most consistent from track to track, but putting out a full-length screamo/post-hardcore record is a tall task, so some inconsistency comes as no surprise. Perhaps it is consistent, and that’s actually kind of the rub? How do you make ten tracks feel important when the approach to each track feels the same? But in this scene, it can also be a cardinal sin to veer from the formula that makes this type of music what it is, so perhaps there’s no way to win here beyond smaller offerings. Clearly, I don’t know. Good on these Louisiana folks for doing the dang thing either way.