Staticlone "Better Living Through Static Vision" CD

Philadelphia's hardcore punks STATICLONE sign to Relapse Records and make their debut with the crushing new album, Better Living Through Static Vision. Hardcore and punk aren't genres that necessarily celebrate change. It’s not like the music is stagnant; far from it! It’s more that the tried and true is rewarded while anything new, anything different, is greeted with a quizzical eyebrow and the spoken or unspoken question of: “Is this good? Can you mosh to it?" If there was anyone in Philadelphia who could answer those queries with expert authority it’s George Hirsch and Dave Walling. Though really, you don’t even need to ask them. Put on the debut album by STATICLONE, the band they started at the tail end of their previous outfit Blacklisted, and you’ll find all the answers you need.   “I started going to hardcore shows in 1995,” singer and guitarist Hirsch says. “So the fact that I’m still here right now talking about a band that I’m a part of that wrote a hardcore record in 2024 me