{"id":45,"date":"2020-02-08T21:03:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T21:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghostsandflowers.com\/?p=45"},"modified":"2020-02-08T21:33:36","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T21:33:36","slug":"maximum-roachs-dry-rot-delivers-noisy-punk-rippers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ghostsandflowers.com\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"Maximum Roach&#8217;s &#8220;Dry Rot&#8221; Delivers Noisy Punk Rippers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3923372470\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maximumroach.bandcamp.com\/album\/dry-rot\">DRY ROT by MaximumRoach<\/a><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maximum Roach&#8217;s debut album, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/maximumroach.bandcamp.com\/\">Dry Rot<\/a><\/em>, is a blistering array of feedback, guttural vocalizing, and high-tempo drumming. The vocalist reportedly tracked the songs while nude in a walk-in freezer in order to make himself as uncomfortable as possible. The result is, undoubtedly, strained and tortured vocalizing which sounds as if it&#8217;s thrashing against the whole of existence, set over a collection of frenetic noise-punk songs that clock in at a minute or so each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I first saw Maximum Roach at a house show in Tempe, AZ circa 2015. The performance was frenzied, energetic, and aggressive. I left with a 4 song hand-sharpied EP in a cardboard sleeve, which became one of a dozen CDs that worked its way into my rotation. I hadn&#8217;t heard much from the band since, however, outside of a handful of shows around the area in that same time frame. As we now know, however, &#8220;big bug never dies.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Dry Rot<\/em>&#8216;s vocals can often veer into the indiscernible, but what can be made out are surreal and impassioned visions of flea-infested heads, selfish existences, a friend getting picked up by facial recognition technology on a drug possession charge, a painful slip into cardiac arrest, and euphorically witnessing the end of the world. The songs are chock-full of syrupy bass, effects-laden distorted guitar forays, and powerful drumming. While most songs on the record end in a dissolution of feedback, the closer, &#8220;EKG&#8221;, offers a brief and peaceful reprieve of cicada buzzing in the final seconds on the record. Overall, it&#8217;s a powerful and loud punk album that&#8217;s pressure-cooked to deliver. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<center><figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Maximum Roach Live\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E6mFDW5wGAY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure><\/center>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maximum Roach&#8217;s debut album, Dry Rot, is a blistering array of feedback, guttural vocalizing, and high-tempo drumming. The vocalist reportedly tracked the songs while nude &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghostsandflowers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghostsandflowers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghostsandflowers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghostsandflowers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghostsandflowers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ghostsandflowers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57,"href":"https:\/\/ghostsandflowers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/57"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghostsandflowers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghostsandflowers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghostsandflowers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghostsandflowers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}