Pyrex

self-titled

scum stats: just one pressing, so far

If you're wondering how long this record lasts, it's exactly the amount of time it takes for me to sign my name 100 times.

Been meaning to catch up on the Total Punk releases and this is just the first one I plopped on after a week out of the office. I thought it was just ok...most of the songs establish themselves within the first couple of seconds and then do not substantially deviate from that form. Heavy, but not overly so, streamlined, aggressive, guitar forward, intense without grating, and above all, consistent.

I didn't think too much of it, but then I watched the video for "Neptune" and I was immediately struck with the concern of "this shit is creepy." To the point where I'm not even sure if I can recommend viewing it without giving you like a half-dozen trigger warnings. I'll provide the link here, but I'm relenting from actually embedding the clip. Caveat emptor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3bW8Dr1EKU

Amazing how a visual, whatever it may be, can so strongly shift our interpretation of a purely audio piece of work. I think there's something redeeming here, but to put it into words is a struggle. I keep coming back to the idea of the peculiarity of two seemingly indistinguishable branches of the kitchenware Pyrex. 

Only recently had I been made aware that there's a differentiation between an all caps PYREX and all lowercase pyrex. Apparently the lowercase version has a tendency to explode in ovens or microwaves, due to its soda lime glass composition. Meanwhile the all cap version is made of borosilicate glass and is cool to do whatever you want with it.