Live Longer Burn Everything
As we all make our way through the daily struggles and trials of living of this capitalist hellscape, we all are trying our best to get by and cope. However, as we lean on our loved ones, on our friends, on our community, we see a bit more light in the day than we did before. Live Longer Burn Everything embodies screamo in its most classic form, as an active form of defiance and with their latest single “Can U Trust Yr Brain?”, the latest cut from their impending debut EP “A Flash of Light And Then…”., they capture this feeling perfectly.
Reminiscent of something from the 2000s era myspace era of diy screamo, the twinkling and plinking that opens the track gently obfuscates the audio clip playing before launching into immense dueling screams and ascendant guitar riffs. Oozing both catharsis and passion, the chorus of ‘Being taken / Somewhere away / Being taken / Somewhere away from this place’ sinks just that bit deeper, screamed and yelled in woven disharmony. Sung in patterned form, punctuated by shouts, the song finds its climax resurging with massive riffs and absolutely gargantuan drumming taking the climax of the track to anthemic heights. There's even a classic mid-2000s "hidden track" moment that immediately took me back my Purevolume / Myspace days.
Within our culture we find safety, even while the world seems to be dissolving in front of us. "Can U Trust Yr Brain?" is about the deeply seated piece in all of us that can exist in community and find solace from that, especially within a scene like ours. Occasionally we forget that music is simply the primary pillar of what makes punk / hardcore / screamo and other heavy music genres appealing in the first place, but once you go to a show, make a band or even start a conversation you are able to find so much more within it.
Live Longer Burn everything's debut EP will be arriving September 22nd via BIGSCREAMOMONEY, preceding their tour with fellow mates of state, A Continent Named Coma. Make sure to check the full release when it drops.
Check out their Bandcamp here : Live Longer Burn Everything
Writer : @letsgetpivotal
Editor : @just_reidz
09/11/23
