A tape that sounds like a damn time machine is a tape that going to get repeated listens in and around TEHQ, and Portland’s IN THE RED embody the now-dated sounds of the burgeoning millennium. Chaotic screamo-adjacent hardcore, rough, metallic and intense. Midwest basement sweat clashing with MOHINDER and ’90s San Diego – I swear I hear ANIMAL FARM in some of these songs, but that reference will mean little to most readers aren’t named Daniel and/or John. The replication is rough and filled with tape hiss, but I kinda feel like that’s how IN THE RED are supposed to sound….especially 24 years later.
