Zero

Photo Cred 📷 : @kanamerecords

0, yes just 0, came across my ears by way of NJAP friend and former compatriot Fernando Forbattle. 0 by 0, is an EP served up like an old Screamo classic. Sparse information, no lyrics, lo-fi recording quality, with all the passion of a larger, more polished release.

Beginning a sequentially named series of tracks, “1” kicks off with a jangly and urgent tempo that meets a reverbed shout, melding into splashy, crisp cymbals sprinting alongside a melancholy rhythm section. “3” comes in with equal urgency and rhythm and clattering drums compliments a lonesome pained guitar riff. Contained within the bands 2000s era demo days recording technique is that ever present drive and burn to push forward. Hailing from Medellin, 0 make up a short list of bands within the genre that hail from Columbia.

The driving and powerful “4” kicks in with an almost European Emoviolence tinged melody, dramatically building and surging into a quick tonal pivot of a pressure building rapport between guitars and drums before spiraling out of control in a mass of cathartic shouts and instrumentation. Of course, I’m an absolute sucker for “6”. A moody interlude with a sampled monologue will always be one of the more important artforms in the genre to me and 0 executes it here almost to perfection. 

As quickly as it arrives, it goes. 0’s first offering is certainly one we’ve gauged with interest, and hopefully one that will lead to something even greater. We look forward to hearing even more from them in the future.

Cassettes for this album will be available through Kaname Records coming this October.

Check out their Bandcamp here : 0

Writer : @letsgetpivotal

Editor : @just_reidz

09/26/22