Submission Hold - "Waiting For Another Monkey To Throw The First Brick" (CD)

This is a 1998 album from Ebullition Records, a 90's-2000's rage subgenre that was not inherited at all in the 2020's. The band itself has been active since 1993, and has already released several albums in cassette format and splits.

Although this album is treated as their first album, the band itself has been active since 1993, and has already released many works in cassette format and on splits before, and although it is their first album, they have already developed an ambitious musicality without any rookie feeling. The band is not limited to the usual band formation of flute, fiddle, trumpet, etc., and the music is not caught in the hardcore punk mold, but the axis is not shaken, and it may be an expansion rather than a deviation from rock music. Punk is a counter to the forces that “have to be” in the world, and punk is art.

I would like to propose the theory that punk was another form of alternative because of the presence of Fugazi of the same generation. This coolness is real, although it did not carry over to the present day.

2020年代には全く継承されなかった90年〜2000年代激情亜種、Ebullition Recordsより1998年アルバム。このアルバムが実質1stアルバム扱いになっていますがバンド自体は1993年からの活動しており、以前にもカセットフォーマットやスプリットなどで既に何度も作品をリリースしており、1stアルバムだけれどルーキー感の一切ない野心的な音楽性が既に出来上がっている。フルートやフィドル、トランペットなど通常バンド編成に捉われず、音楽性としてもハードコアパンクという型には捉われず、けれども軸はブレておらずそれはロックからの逸脱ではなくて拡張なのかもしれない。その中の「そうでなくてはならない」という勢力に対してのカウンター、アート、それがパンク。同年代のFugaziがいたからこそのオルタナティブのもう一つの形だった説を提唱したい。現代へは引き継がれなかったがこのカッコ良さは本物。

tracklist:
1. My Belief
2. Quality Of Growth
3. Something Finer
4. Stuck
5. Last Surviving Crocodile
6. Source Of Fuck
7. Worker's Paradise
8. Deadpan
9. His Master's Voice