Show Me The Body – ‘Trouble The Water’ [Album Review]

There are some bands who refuse to play by the rulebook and then there are groups, like hardcore punks Show Me The Body, who refuse to even acknowledge that a rulebook exists. Their fourth full-length release, Trouble The Water, is yet another musical cauldron of frustration, rage and ferocity from an act that continue to push their experimental chaos to new heights. An album you have to be fully invested in to gain any glimmer of hope that you will take anything away from it, Trouble The Water kicks off with “Loose Talks,” and banjos. Yep, you know we talked about SMTB refusing to acknowledge a rulebook, well banjos should show how far out of the hardcore comfort zone these artists take their music. From that opening scene-setter, the next thirty-odd minutes is an impossible-to-predict ab...

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