Bandcamp of the Day: Habak
Tijuana neocrust and post-hardcore band Habak released their latest LP Ningún Muro Consiguió Jamás Contener la Primavera in October of 2020. Citing bands like Spain’s Madame Germen and Japan’s Envy as influences, Habak takes pains to draw out the softer more accommodating side of crust, contrasting it, at least aesthetically, against the riotous expressions of immiserated anger that dominates the playlists of squats the world over. Long, meditative tracks (and even longer, thoughtful titles) are typically favored by post-metal bands, but when adopted by crust punks, it opens up a space for the return of a kind of asceticism that is as old as recorded history itself. The rambling poet and philosopher is an archetypal character in the Western canon. A persona who rejects the corr...
