Hurry Up
Portland, Oregon, United States
About
Portland troublemakers Hurry Up are up to their shit again. And by the way, they’ve had it up to here with your shit—and they’re here to tell you about it. Lauded and feared for their ferocious 2015 self-titled LP, they’ve only grown bolder and sharper, honing their craft in a radon-soaked basement lit by one bare party bulb. Between tours with Drive Like Jehu, Hot Snakes, Protomartyr, and other luminaries of the post punk firmament, Hurry Up wrote the songs that would become DISMAL NITCH. Recorded on the very brink of disaster (late 2019-early 2020), the record is a cracked crystal ball with fire in its heart. Drummer/singer Kathy Foster (Thermals, All Girl Summer Fun Band, Roseblood), guitarist/singer Westin Glass (Thermals), and bassist/singer Maggie Vail (Bangs) share equal writing and singing duties, conjuring a dark vision of a world whirling with firestorms—social, emotional, political, and literal. From with the opening anthem, “American Weirdos,” the volcanics of Foster’s drums lock in with Vail’s mysterious, driving bass lines, while Glass’s guitar maddeningly harangues the listener, like the cackling of the crows mocking poor Prometheus. Chaos and harmony maintain an uneasy tête-à-tête through the twists and turns of this record. It's a record about terrible deeds and final reckonings, about consent and the intoxicating rush of headlong abandon, about departures and the tearing away of veils, and about half-crazy love in the face of utter devastation.
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