Album review: Going Off – Die Fast

Getting caught in a mosh is a feeling that’s infamously difficult to replicate on record. If there’s one quality that sets Mancunian hardcore lot Going Off apart, it’s that their music feels (very nearly) as reckless and unpredictable crashing into your head from a pair of headphones as it does being let loose from the PA in some dingy dive bar.  Second album Die Fast picks up where last February’s debut What Makes You Tick? and December’s frantic Kill List EP left off – just with the swollen confidence of more months’ on the road and a shade of additional spit-and-shine. Push To Shove opens proceedings with 69 seconds of gnashing energy and two-step attitude. Cowards ramps up the crossover-thrash energy while finding time for a leftfield Dumb &&...

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