Wrong Answer Strike Back!

You might remember (if you're one of the people I forced to read this blog when it was just starting) that one of the first big features we ran was an interview with Justin Ogden, singer in Philadelphia hardcore band Wrong Answer.

Well they're back, with a UK tour and a new EP. Word on the street is that 'Cross A Black Cat's Path' is an absolute killer and for once, the word on the street is one hundred per cent correct. This EP is going to melt your mind.




At four tracks and a hairs breadth over ten minutes it isn't the longest thing you're going to be getting excited about this year (insert crude sex joke here) but then you wouldn't expect Wrong Answer to be writing seven minute epic songs with three solos would you?

This instead is hardcore at its short, sharp edge. No End In Sight is all bile and chugging riffs with enough aggression being released to knock over a small building. Casing point would be the lyrics, 'Can't you fucking see you're torturing someone who has so little to lose/I hope someday you'll pay with your blood for all your fucking abuse/fuck you'.

The title track (with spoken word intro) is in a similar vein but with the guitars even more frantic and a break down so perfectly executed it takes very little imagination to see the two step madness it will no doubt inspire. 'The Nightmare Continues' is a classic slice of Wrong Answer heaviness but, The Antoinette is something else. Paranoid and dark as a moonless night its creepy from the word go (another spoken word intro) and lyrics ('In your eyes I see myself/ Someone I can't fucking live with / In my hands I feel the rope /before I tie it oh so tightly’) that will have your mum taking you to see a shrink if she catches you singing them in the shower.

The EP is different from older Wrong Answer releases, you certainly can’t accuse the band of copy and pasting their previous sound but at the same time they've kept the key ingredients that made them so vital in the first place. The heavy riffs, cathartic lyrics and moshtacualr (yes that is a word) breakdowns are still here but the whole affair is more concentrated, more focused and darker than before.

If you have the dollar pick this up on pre-order. Or even better, go to one of their upcoming shows and throw in the live experience as well. Neither EP nor live show will disappoint.

Patch