Fucked And Bound
Suffrage
Atomic Action! Records
Review by hutch
Released 3/2/18
Just a warning, because you will need to buy this record. When you google “fucked and bound”... even with adding the descriptor, “hardcore”; the action
will not render the band’s material. Quite different of a result will be yielded. Maybe pictures and
websites which are already in your cache. Not my business. But when the
inevitable fervent search for Fucked And Bound’s music is imminent, be sure to include the
term “band”. Members of He Whose Ox Is Gored of Seattle have formed this
treacherous, confrontational hardcore punk band, Fucked And Bound. The name
echoes the lyrics and screams to shock and retain your attention. They are not
just a heavy hardcore punk band. Suffrage, their first release, embodies politics and declarations regarding today’s female perspective in this society and scene.
Suffrage’s song
unabashedly incorporate a rock swing and groove feel while still being rough
and coarse. (early) Coliseum and Trap Them all come to mind. FAB may venture
into d-beat but that is too limiting a term. The swing of Despise You is paired
with the brash impact of Fucking Invincible, Heresy and Dropdead. Suffrage has amazing production, heavy
on the low end. The rumble in the bass and drums rides dirty and low. Suffrage was tracked and mixed by Robert
Cheek at Electric Wall Studios and ExEx Audio and mastered by Blake Bickel at
Dynamic Sound Services. Cheek and Bickel took this quartet’s sporadic spasms
and eclectic amassing of influences and molded quite a finished product. Some of
these songs take grander, pulsating moments with angular indulgences (the third
track, “Dead Bop”, is the first to tease this; “My Love” again visits this.).
Some slower sludge parts peperred throughout give the album the variation and
refuses to be repetitive. Twelve songs range from 30 seconds to 2 minute;
ending with a four minute joint as the thirteenth track.
Lisa Mungo has a combative pair of lungs and a scratchy
throat. Her commanding vocals charge forward above the thrashing riffs and
blistering drums. And while feminist issues are presented, do not brush Suffrage’s lyrics with a single stroke. The
band’s approach to feminism expounds into every citizen’s duty to question the
established paradigms of Western culture. Extrapolation is a tool. Fucked and
Bound – beyond its jarring sexual connotation – is a perfect name for the band,
because it encapsulates their cynical viewpoint of the average person’s
condition. The nihilistic response may be bleak but fuck me if it doesn’t give
us a killer record.
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