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Listening
to this split EP by these two bands that offer two songs each has got me
wondering why bands that sound so similar can share a split. I know it makes more sense to put a band
with a band they sound like because then they can go on a fitting label and
into the appropriate scene, but sometimes that might be more of a hindrance.
With
these four songs, for example, it’s not easy to tell who is singing which song
other than by the fact that they are labeled.
The songs come off somewhere between Nora and Every Time I Die and if
you were to shake them up, I wouldn’t be able to tell the difference of which
bands was which.
So why
not put one of these bands with someone that doesn’t sound so much like them so
that way they can be held in separate lights?
If
these two bands also didn’t sound so much alike, then it would be easier to
fall in love with both of them. In some
ways, it almost feels like this is a competition as we compare the bands that
we hear back to back. In many ways, this can come down to “Well,
Caust does this and This is not for you does not” or vice versa, and then
rather than a split this becomes more of a versus EP.
Having
two bands on a split that didn’t sound so similar would also help with cross
promoting, mainly putting some hardcore bands into the punk scene and
likewise. I think it’s a good idea even
though I rarely see it happen. (The
Porcupine / A*Star split record was defined enough to have both bands as being
different)
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