Coach Campa - If You've Got the Hammer
When listening to If You've Got the Hammer for the first time, one thought kept surfacing. The first time the Minutemen opened for Black Flag, the crowd spit on them and even in later shows they were booed off stage. The audience consensus was, the Minutemen were just not punk. An interesting new thought, what if Coach Campa opened up for Black Flag back then? It would be extremely difficult to deny the intensity, speed and drum patterns of Ethan Campa. They are anything less then the fastest and most annihilating sounds a Black Flag crowd would have ever heard. The fellow band members, Chris Dunaway, Jared Flores, Jacob Gonzalez, Abel Gonzalez, Stephen Flores, blur the lines with bass, guitars, ukulele, and trumpet. A sonic offering blowing apart one genre, fragments found across the the musical spectrum.
This is a quick composition in a few ways. Eight tracks in the span of fifteen minutes mostly played with a metronome working so feverishly, the vibrations causing it to fall to the floor. Ethan Campa has drums sounding liking the purring engine of a muscle car, a tachometer is the only tool to document the neurons firing per minute. Couple this with angular guitar rhythms, shredding a path while the trumpet sounds in hazed obscurities, If You've Got the Hammer is punk with an exponential number.
This is a San Antonio, Texas project. Not certain if everyone is from there, but this is the location denoted on bandcamp. Already Dead Tapes and Records using their sonic tuned radar to make the connection and capture everything on pink cassettes in an edition of one hundred. Copies are available from Already Dead's site.
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