This fast, harsh, and totally excellent Richmond hardcore supergroup, featuring current or former members of Brainworms, The Catalyst, Operation Latte Thunder, and Forensics, has been playing around town for about six months now, and I for one have eagerly awaited the arrival of recorded material. And now, the wait is over! Well, sorta. The songs are only streaming on Bandcamp, not available for download, and they don't have song titles or lyrics posted yet. But you can listen to the demo while you're sitting at your computer, and that's where you are right now, so what are you waiting for?
CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT REAL TALK'S DEMO!
As I mentioned before, Real Talk spend a lot of their time playing fast, but they're capable of varying up the speeds and do so to excellent effect on some of these songs. The slower intros and breakdowns only make the fast parts hit harder. What hits hardest of all, though, are the incredibly harsh vocals. If anything, they may be a little too high in the mix, but the unpolished elements of the demo recording, of which the upfront vocals are one, are far more preferable to the overly polished recordings that are all too common in all genres of music in this day and age. Real Talk sound like a band playing in a room together--an impression only strengthened by the fact that one of the songs ends with members yelling, "Fuck yeah!" and high-fiving each other--and that's a sound that is unjustly devalued by a lot of modern bands. So check out this excellent example of fast, angry and, yes, somewhat sloppy hardcore, and be sure to catch Real Talk the next time they play a basement show in your neighborhood.
By the way, you can figure out which song is which if you concentrate really hard while comparing lyrics from this facebook post, so if you really want to know, that information is available. I've just been too lazy to figure it out as yet.