Bandcamp of the Day: Purple-X
Purple-X may strike you as the name of a new vape flavor, but they’re actually a band Oslo who I hope you’ll find more aesthetically pleasing than the Verizon store inside a pawn-shop inside a strip-mall vibe that your local vape shop had has cultivated. Instead of artificial fruit flavors that smell and taste like they were mixed in a bucket in the corner of someone’s shower, Purple-X serves up a frayed and darkly groovy variety of hardcore that tangos with the angular whip of the ’00s post-punk revival to produce a sound that is as unstable and dangerous as a merry-go-round balancing on the back of a roller-coaster cart as it loops through a gravity-defying cyclone of turns. Purple-X’s will certainly appeal to fans of Wipers and Code Orange, with their stabb...
