Description
Lack Of Interest “Trapped Inside” LP
A repress of the Californian super-fast hardcore band’s first full-length, released by Slap A Ham in 1999. Lack Of Interest took their influence from Infest, No Comment, and Crossed Out, and carried the power violence torch into the late ’90s and 2000s.
At the time of it’s original release I found this album to be a little too Infest derivative – which I now think is a tad unfair. For a start, listening to it now for the first time in many moons, I recognise that this is a band taking an already established template and then having a lot fun running with it, taking it into new places, pushing and slapping it around a bit, finding out what happens next… Fun, yes, but not to the same extent as, say, Spazz, because with Lack Of interest you get a sense of serious-minded angst at work here. Thoughtful aggression. Like the best power violence, you get a huge, all encompassing rush of release – all that tension, anxiety, frustration, outrage, all being channeled into one of the finest expressions of hardcore punk, which, for whatever reason, from Siege and Septic Death onwards, America has always done especially well…
