Hoover – The Lurid Traversal Of Route 7 LPHoover The Lurid Traversal Of Route 7 LP "Call Hoover's sole Dischord album emo if one wants because that would be right, but not in the washed out whine sense of the late '90s. Much like the similarly fierce Drive Like Jehu from San Diego, when Lurid Traversal totally and completely fires up, Hoover are out for blood and sound it: musical aggression amped up high, lyrics clipped, and vocals screamed in usually very high pitches. The Jehu comparison

If anything serves as a common thread in all of Gary’s work then it’s not only in his love of stratospheric sounds

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the listener is given a reverse look at the band's evolution from lo-fi Sabbath enthusiasts ("White Magic/Black Magic

mosh-ready punk classics like the “Dead Deer

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and post-punk (imagine a Front 242

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and interviews with bands such as Green Day

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darker and hits harder than their previous EP Bright and Bending

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