EXCIDE New Album "Bastard Hymns" Out Now Via Sharptone - Band Shares Visualizer For "Down In The Mouth"
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EXCIDE — Tyler Washington, Gill Gonzalez, Gage Lanza, Caleb Hogue, and Jacob Paris — have just dropped their second album "Bastard Hymns" via SharpTone Records. Get it here. The band has also shared the visualizer for "Down in the Mouth".
We are incredibly excited to bring you our brand new album, 'Bastard Hymns'", the band enthuses. "Our perspective on the range that exists within genre and emotion. A record for the low, fighting the urge to go lower. We hope this finds you where you need it most."
The album has garnered press praise from Revolver, New Noise, Idioteq, Idobi, Hardcore Dropout and more.
"Bastard Hymns" is the logical next step from the band's debut album "Deliberate Revolver". "Having felt like we accomplished what we came to do on the first record, there were no guidelines or barriers around where we were to go next. This opened up so many avenues for our creativity and exploration. We were lucky enough to begin working with SharpTone the following year, which put the band back in gear and opened up new possibilities for the path forward."
Sonically, the band was inspired by the grooves and energy of late '90s post-hardcore bands such as Cast Iron Hike and Snapcase, while siphoning melody and textural elements much the same as Quicksand and Cave In. The band was not afraid to shift gears a bit and take influence from the likes of Queens of the Stone Age, Soundgarden, and Failure, which, Excide admit "allowed us to really push the sonic needle into uncharted territory, even further accentuated by Austin Coupe's co-writing and production".
Overall, the album is a "fuzzy, rocky, groovy, angry record. Seeped in the woes of growing up in a hillbilly hellscape, and living to tell the tale. The result was Bastard Hymns".
During 2020, Excide initially introduced a boundary-breaking signature style gestated across projects such as "Two of a Kind" and "Actualize/Radiation Reel". Two years later, momentum picked up on the heels of their independent full-length debut "Deliberate Revolver" which incited the applause of Brooklyn Vegan, Revolver, and more. They caught the attention of Sharptone Records and inked a deal with the label. In 2024, their next era ramped up in earnest with the two-pack Humdinger, including "Dis(re)member" and "All Down (But 9)". Right away, Stereogum raved, "Both of its tracks go hard" and NO ECHO marveled at how "the band's dynamic blend of '90s-flavored hardcore and propulsive post-hardcore rhythms has shined brightly on each of their releases".
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