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In the ripping hardcore scene that has recently cropped up in Pittsburgh surrounding bands like Living World, White Stains and Necro Heads comes Speed Plans; a writhing, drug fueled, violence machine of manic hardcore in the vein of Repos or Ripcord. When we were first contacting Speed Plans on account of their absolutely raging cassette output, they mentioned wanting to do an LP that was "15 fast ones and 1 slow one." We were sold right then and there. If mean, fast, low-fi and low brow is what you're after then look no further, you've arrived.
500 copies on 150gr black vinyl housed in a 24pt reverse board jacket with lyric insert included. Recorded at Clean Living Audio. Mastered by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air.
Our take: Weâve carried several releases from Pittsburghâs Speed Plans over the past few years, but if you havenât checked them out until now, youâve arrived to the party just in time. Statues of God is the record you want. I keep seeing the Reposâ name thrown around in relation to this record. Admittedly, that didnât occur to me right off the bat⌠instead, I heard similarities to 80s bands like Negative FX, early Agnostic Front, and Youth of Today. But now that I think about it, this sounds a lot like the Repos. Which is to say they sound like the 80s bands I mentioned, but touches like the harmonized guitar leads in âClevelandâ could be deliberate homages to the Repos. I fucking love the Repos (I think I have every single one of their records, which is no mean feat) and I love this, but I donât think you need to love the Repos in order to love Speed Plans. Itâs just a raw, rampaging, nihilistic hardcore punk record, and even though Iâve been listening to this stuff for decades, it still sounds fresh and urgent to me. Maybe thatâs because Iâm boring or that my tastes arenât that adventurous, but I prefer to think itâs because Speed Plans is just that good.
500 copies on 150gr black vinyl housed in a 24pt reverse board jacket with lyric insert included. Recorded at Clean Living Audio. Mastered by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air.
Our take: Weâve carried several releases from Pittsburghâs Speed Plans over the past few years, but if you havenât checked them out until now, youâve arrived to the party just in time. Statues of God is the record you want. I keep seeing the Reposâ name thrown around in relation to this record. Admittedly, that didnât occur to me right off the bat⌠instead, I heard similarities to 80s bands like Negative FX, early Agnostic Front, and Youth of Today. But now that I think about it, this sounds a lot like the Repos. Which is to say they sound like the 80s bands I mentioned, but touches like the harmonized guitar leads in âClevelandâ could be deliberate homages to the Repos. I fucking love the Repos (I think I have every single one of their records, which is no mean feat) and I love this, but I donât think you need to love the Repos in order to love Speed Plans. Itâs just a raw, rampaging, nihilistic hardcore punk record, and even though Iâve been listening to this stuff for decades, it still sounds fresh and urgent to me. Maybe thatâs because Iâm boring or that my tastes arenât that adventurous, but I prefer to think itâs because Speed Plans is just that good.