LEISURE SOCIETY, THE - Arrivals & Departures (2LP) (Sealed) (2LP)

You know - a really fat burger - veggi or not, it really doesn't matter for this metaphor - a huge pile of fries, and at least half a litre of cola or something similar.This triumvirate of unhealthiness I can rarely resist. I know that stuff is in your stomach, that you have lots of calories and carbohydrates and that it is a really nasty food.So far so good. And what does that have to do with Trainwreck? Very simple: "Old departures, new beginnings" is a musical burger menu so to speak.It hurts, it's bulky, you can't have it on your head every day either, but when you hit it, and you get the stuff, it's the hottest thing in the whole world.Then happiness hormones are thrown out as if someone had mixed Mama's pills into their food. Then you grin at both ears and are happy to have played this stubborn beast piece of music.Even the opener is a big French fries special, so to speak. There's everything you'd expect from modern hardcore punk.The violent parts, the experimental moments, the impetuosity, the wild, the screaming against everything.The guitars sing and shoot the melodies literally to each other - duel and so on... It sounds a bit more tidy than the last records and somehow almost more "pop" - especially the first song leaves a lot of freedom for almost calm and spherical moments.From the second song on there is an end to being friendly. There are D-beats, stormy threshing - reminiscent of early Converge - and after a short time interrupted by a powerful "Mosh"-part.In itself, the record contains one or the other fat neckbreaker part, which doesn't make it difficult to sway along.With two interludes, peace returns, but it doesn't last too long. You can really listen to the guys' different musical influences and long tour and band experience and you get eleven sophisticated songs, washed with all kinds of water, which carry everything from Baroness-, Comadre-, early Envy- up to the already quoted Converge-Feeling a little bit in your ears.I haven't heard anything like this for a long time, or rarely find the opportunity to hold out such a musical wrecking ball over the whole length - I'm probably too hard popper, hehe - but I'm still a fan.And so the admittedly a bit wild burger comparison closes: sometimes it has to be the culinary steam hammer that gets your endorphins out of you - and Trainwreck certainly are!Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator