San Diego’s Crasher are set to follow their 2020 debut EP Traitor with their first full-length, Speaking Terms, tomorrow (10/10), and an early stream of the full album premieres in this post. The project was started by Dave Mead of Exasperation and Wild Wild Wets, and live drummer Jordan Krimston (of Weatherbox, Oso Oso, Ms. New Buddha, and more) has since become Dave’s core recording drummer and collaborator. The album finds the band churning out raw, garagey, ’90s-style post-hardcore, with some noise rock passages, some motorik backbones, and some welcome detours into psychedelic folk.
“Speaking Terms is bookended by its own extremes,” Dave tells us. “It starts as fast and loud as we’ve ever gotten as a band and ends as chill and tranquil as any song I’ve ever recorded. The heavier songs were about ruins, and the tranquil acoustic songs are about the flowers that grow between the cracks of the fallen-over buildings.”
Give the record a listen right here:
