Milwaukee hardcore-punk band Big Laugh have released their new album, Consume Me, via Revelation Records. Recorded with producer Matt Russell at Altered States Studio in Chicago, Consume Me is an energetic blast of creative hardcore. The album’s lyrics hit close to home for the band, holding personal notions while still feeling outwardly relatable. For decades, the upper midwest of the United States has been a hotspot for hardcore bands that bend genres and refuse to stick to tired formulas, producing acts like Husker Du and Die Kreuzen. Big Laugh are following in that tradition, with a sound that finds them as much at home playing DIY shows in dingy basements as playing large clubs alongside some of hardcore and punk’s luminaries. Self-described “punks who listen to Judg...