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HISTORY "Ghosts In The City" (24 Hour Service Station)
Review by Corey Schmidt

When you name your band HISTORY, you either don't care about getting web-hits from Google, have a lot of confidence that your music will live up to the title, or know a good lawyer who will defend you in your copyright trial once said band makes a name for itself. In the case of Orlando, Florida's HISTORY, I have no idea if any of the above cases are true, but I do know that their debut full-length is a pretty rocking slab of keyboard-infused post-hardcore. Angular guitars, shifty rhythms, and throaty vocals form the band's propulsive foundation, allowing much room for Moogist Scott Ososky and keyboardist Melissa Parker to make a mark. Although subtle in many songs ("BMK & The Valley Of Bats"), this small addition really adds a lot to the band's already aggressive aural attack. It's a sound that we've heard before from a band like CLAIR DE LUNE, but here it's done in an even more raw, rigged, and unique form. While these traits are definitely appreciated, there are times where the guitarists get to play with melodies a bit more, and the result is a song like "She Spit In My Cup" where some parallels to THURSDAY can be heard. For the most part, Ghosts In The City has just enough diversity between songs to make for an interesting forty-minute listen. HISTORY still might need those Google results and a copyright lawyer down the road, but if it comes to that they may already be paving their own path in a historically-significant genre.

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