The four men who make up Dealing With Damage have been involved in this country’s punk scene for decades, but Use The Daylight might just be the best thing any of them have done. Their sound evokes both the classic Washington DC sound and the comparatively underrated strain of melodic UK hardcore that followed in the wake of US bands like Hüsker Dü and Dag Nasty. To write a tune reminiscent of Fugazi, and then give it the same name as a Fugazi song, might seem somewhat foolhardy. But Instrument, along with similarly Dischord-adjacent tracks like We Make Bombs To Feel Safe and First, They Ignore You, finds the band stamping their own identity on such heavyweight influences, while the irresistible Rinse Repeat Rinse harks back to the sublime catchiness of Dinosaur Jr or ...