Here's some splits.
Johnny Hobo And The Freight Trains + MANTITS - Love Songs For The Apocalypse (2005)
Features Pat the Bunny and his gang, their best rendition of DIY Orgasm, a bunch of political songs about war, freedom, and elections, The New Mexico song, and a fairly unknown acoustic folk musician who went by MANTITS at the time.
The track, "kicking your shins" by MANTITS is a pretty messed up but with a meaning behind it kind of tune and is definitely another highlight from this DIY folk the police, punk the cops split of a better time.
Actually now that I think of it, most of MANTITS' songs are all very much sarcastic pokes at the government and depict some pretty
Johnny Hobo's Last.fm
MANTITS' Last.fm
Throats + Maths - Split (2008)
All around bitter hardcore in this one. The first time I heard this I had to stop after the Maths side because it packed so much of a punch. It's one of those albums that just doesn't quit and why should it?
Throats leaves no room to breathe on their side (while Maths actually has a song just for that called "Breathe As If It Were a Story"). Just constant hardcore through and through on these guys's part. No melodies, no apologies.
If you want a good example of two highly driven and way past just sounding pissed off bands from the UK...
You are (figuratively) looking at 'em.
Maths' Bandcamp
Throats' Bandcamp
Maths' Last.fm
Throats' Last.fm
Pg.99 and City of Caterpillar - Document #9: A Split Personality (2001)
This split has the honor of being right after the legendary Document #8 tape.
Get lost in it.
City of Caterpillar's Last.fm
Pg.99's Last.fm
Deer Leap and The World is a Beautiful Place & I am No Longer Afraid to Die - Are Here to Help You Split (2011)
One of the best splits of last year. Maybe.
Deer Leap's Bandcamp
TWiaBP&IaNLAtD's Bandcamp
Deer Leap's Last.fm
TWiaBP&IaNLAtD's Last.fm
Daitro / Sed Non Satiata - Split (2008)
Rumor has it Daitro is back from hiatus.
As the Maths/Throats Split was a good example of some of the best emotionally heavy bands from The United Kingdom, this split is probably the most honest example of the two best French screamo bands ever. Jamais!
Still not satisfied?
Sed Non Saita's Bandcamp
Daitro's Last.fm
Sed Non Satiata's Last.fm
Chalk Talk / Sirs - BVVVVVVV (2011)
This one probably deserves its very own post, but hey! Here at NFT, we save the best for last!
While I can't speak too much on behalf of the Sirs side of things (not that that's a bad thing. It's still jammin'), I can say that the two tracks by Chalk Talk are nothing we haven't heard before and trust me, we've all heard the Beach Boys summer jingle, "Wouldn't It Be Nice" before. But this split features a different version of "Misquamicut Has Bigger Waves Though", the song that got me hooked on these guys a year or so ago. And for that Beach Boys track that they have now made their own, which you may have already heard from the Biff Swenson cover compilation, 'Cover Up' that I addressed a few months back, it clearly shows that these Western Mass boys are no where close to California. Capisce?
I hope you are ready for all the cool new stuff coming out by both of these solid bands this summer! This is exciting!
Chalk Talk's Bandcamp
Sirs' Bandcamp
Chalk Talk's Last.fm
Sirs' Last.fm
