Bad Anxiety (USA)GET LOST! Fest confirmed

About Bad Anxiety (USA)

Lockdown 4-track cassette hardcore punk solo project. All songs written and recorded in one day on 08/24/2020. Our take: Hattiesburg, Mississippi’s Earth Girl Tapes brings us the 4-song demo tape from Bad Anxiety. Bad Anxiety is another one of those projects where one person plays every instrument, and the person in question here is Hampton, who also plays in Judy & the Jerks and a bunch of other Hattiesburg groups. The sound is full-bore hardcore punk with an emphasis on high energy and catchy songwriting. I hear a lot of Circle Jerks in Bad Anxiety’s sound (perhaps because “Police” bears more than a passing resemblance to “Red Tape”), but the vocals are snotty and carry a touch of melody. Maybe it’s because I just spun this record the other day, but the vocals remind me of Lumpy’s in Cal and the Calories, though the music is more akin to Fried E/M’s blistering hardcore. The first three tracks are sub-1 minute sprints, with the EP ending on a (comparatively) mid-paced note with “Big City,” a more rocking track with great, sarcastic lyrics that sounds like something the Controllers or Angry Samoans might have come up with. This would have made for a killer 7”, but this limited-to-100 cassette will have to do.

(www.sorrystaterecords.com)

On tour

Fr 18.08 AACHEN – LOLAPAROLI
Sat 19.08 KÖLN – PRIVTATE
Sun 20.08 KORTRIJK – PITS
Mon 21.08 ANTWERPEN – tba
Tue 22.08 offers welcome
Wed 23.08 offers welcome
Thu 24.08 GRONINGEN – MOSHPIT OF CREATIONS
Fr 25.08 HAMBURG – GET LOST FEST 9
Sat 26.08 HAMBURG – GET LOST FEST 9
Sun 27.08 FRANKFURT – TBA
Mon 28.08 PRAG – Underdogs
Tue 29.08 VIENNA – VENSTER 99
Wed 30.08 BUDAPEST – KRIPTA
Thu 31.08 ZAGREB – CLUB ATTACK
Fr 01.09 italy – tba
Sat 02.09 BURGHAUSEN – JUZ
Sun 03.09 LEIPSICK – tba
Mon 04.09 BERLIN – An der Autobahn
Tue 05.09 MALMÖ – Pedaller`s Kitchen
Wed 06.09 Gothenburg – tba
Thu 07.09 Oslo – tba
Fr 08.09 STOCKHOLM – Push my Buttons
Sat 09.09 KOPENHAGEN – UNGDOMSHUSET