Grade: 6.5/10
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The Scarlet Letter - Pure, unadulterated-adultery 7"
Genre: Hardcore
Origin: USA
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Label: Assault Records
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This is pretty difficult for me to describe. I don’t listen that much to hardcore, so I’m not quite sure how to label this. Old school hardcore maybe? Who cares, it’s pretty good. Although way softer than most of my record collection, this is very catchy. Makes me move along with the music. It’s got some grind parts that fits in great. The production is raw enough to give it a dirty edge, but not ruin the sound. Main vocals are rough and definitely in the vein of older hardcore bands. There’s some other guy that screams his lungs out at times, works great.
Political lyrics about the United States government, capitalism, injustices… And some personal touch to it with a love song! “Love songs aren’t wrong just because the cool kids don’t want to sing along”, haha. There you go, all you cool kids.
The music is very catchy and energetic, rough, raw and great. Don’t judge this by my kind of low rating, it truly is a good piece of vinyl, just maybe not what I normally listen to.

Tracklist:
1. The real world: New Brunswick
2. Nordberg
3. The individual
4. Sunday social hour
5. Be sure to drink your ovaltine
6. In Todd we trust
7. Where glances meet
8. A solitary love song
9. History is a lie