Dear friends, as the monotony marches ever onwards, I offer you these sweet and sour moments to help raise you out of the day to day. They’ve done that for me and I hope they will for you as well. One Step Closer These are a melodic hardcore band that hail from Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, and deal in the kind of fraught old-school-hardcore-meets-emo hybrid that was pioneered by bands like Turning Point, Lincoln and to a certain degree, Zack de la Rocha’s pre-Rage band Inside Out. That whole early ’90s era of bands coming out on labels like Art Monk Construction, Revelations and Doghouse is such a favourite period of hardcore history for me, so now any band bringing that kind of energy will always strike a chord. If that era never clicked for you, think ...