Spicy Soup Productions
Seven-inches are better than free downloads. I’d have much preferred the 7” for this. But duty calls. Or poorness calls. Whatever.
I started with Dylan Bredeau, who play pretty noisy post-hardcore/90s-style emo, liberally laying on the feedback and guitar noise during pretty intense tunes. That mixture of chest-tightening melody and pretty relentless volume blend perfectly, especially with the two singers’ straight-from-the-heart singing. An awesome band, and two songs that fare well against each other, with “I’m Still Looking for Jupiter” being a personal favourite.
Moving on to Ripshit after Dylan Bredeau is, if anything, ever so slightly disconcerting. Ripshit essentially play pretty straightforward hardcore, which is of course full of welcome aggression that hardcore can never lack, but possesses rather irritating, very high-end vocals, and an unfortunate blandness that could place them as one of the lesser interesting bands on a Tony Hawks game soundtrack. Well-executed but unfortunately doing nothing new, or anything for me unfortunately.
As a split, both bands don’t play too well off each other. Dylan Bredeau are indeed very good. But Ripshit’s bland hardcore makes this a tad forgettable.
Dylan Bredeau: 7/10
Ripshit: 5/10
Overall: 6/10
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