Following up a kickass 7″ debut – led by the scorching lead track, Twelve Hundred Dollars – Outdoor Miners may be a bit older, but they refuse to leave their 90′s era punk riffs and noisey melodies behind.

 

And really, thank f*cking god.The buzz saw guitars that explode from the speakers on “Bent Brain” and shouted chorus are made to jump start a set, and the muddy, plodding noise that artfully derails the slowed tempo of “Friends With Money” seems destined to end one.

 

But it’s the title track that steals the show here. The elastic band bass line that drives the song might as well be a flux capacitor set to 1993; a time when bands like Dinosaur Jr., GBV and Pavement were indie rock, and their crazy mix of melody, shimmering guitar work and sing-along choruses somehow not only spoke to you, they spoke for you. “Disgust” does more in two-minutes than most collectives do in a full album. Hinting at lust, self-doubt and unrequited love… Outdoor Miners succinctly some up adolescence in 120 seconds and still have time for a huge face melter.

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MP3:: Outdoor Miners – Disgust
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