conation was probably the best australian hardcore band of their era... (late 90s/early 2000s) harsh, yet emotive but never sappy or grating, they managed to make beautiful melodies and brutal noise coherently and meld these offsetting sounds seamlessly......a listen to this album, which came out in 2001, brings to mind bands as diverse as stack, portrait, envy, rorschach and even city of caterpillar......this is for me at least, a landmark album for australian hardcore/punk....political lyrics, real emotion...setting the bar high for bands to come........its just too bad that their followup, "troubled waters and fortresses"wasnt nearly as good.........they seemed to have decided to go in a pop punk direction for that record with not-so-good results.....but this one is a killer......have a listen.........
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