Dystopia - Humans = Garbage
This is the first record from classic crust punk group dystopia, and holy shit. The first song legit always makes me feel like I’m going to cry. The vocalist just screaming about how fucked it is we have to work every day just to feed ourselves feels so fucking raw, so real, and emotional. It makes you feel exhausted. Like the weight of the world is coming down on you. Right away you have some fucking insanely hard hitting punk that brings a level of brutality and emotional potency that only dystopia fucking does as good as they do.
The rest of the album is equally powerful and intense. Definitely not an album I’d recommend putting on if you’re in a dark place, because it plays on those emotions. It feels those emotions and it dials them up to fucking 11. The instrumentation is so complex and well mastered. You can hear the click of the strings. You feel like you’re in the room with these people. The samples are just as raw as ok their other records and the whole thing is perfectly integrated. There are a few lighter moments that usually have to do with weed on this thing, but for the most part this is a dark dark dark record.
Dystopia is quickly becoming one of my favorite bands and this album just solidified their place even more for me. Very rarely do crust punk albums make me emotional. Very rarely am I impressed by the technical proficiency on display both in its instrumentation and production. Very rarely do I say you HAVE to check out a band if you’re into the genre they’re a part of, but you do. You do.