Thursday, May 23, 2013
Sunday Sludge: Pigs - "You Ruin Everything"
I guess I was in one o' those moods. Saturday night turned into Sunday morning, I accomplished absolutely nothing, and every person in my life went fuckin' bananas. I discovered a struggle to breathe, an ache in my lower back, and the realization I could never hang with the younger crowd in the first place. Fuck it. Perhaps I needed an album that oozed as much disdain and misanthropy as I held so tightly. But Brooklyn's Pigs boasted a disenchanted smother that made short work of my mood-swing tap dance.
Formed in 2008, Pigs is the stitch of three wandering souls who cut their teeth playing in bands like Unsane, Freshkills, and Converge. I'm not sure who's responsible for bringing together these three in a studio, but shake his hand as you kick him in his balls. There's an element of... [via Heavy Planet]