Pusrad - Modern Anatomi

More impossibly brief slices of panicattack hardcore from Swedish speedpunx Pusrad. Frenetic and jerky but scalpel clean, most songs raving themselves out in under 30 seconds. The 7" comes with songs listing Title, Lyrics, Time and then Chords per Second, to properly convey its deliberate dedication to punishing velocity. Paragraf 3 slows it down a bit, to 40 seconds of more mid-tempo punk that rings out sharply and closer Masskineri is a full 68 seconds long which, considering their 5 track Akta Dig 7" was 74 seconds in its entirety, is practically their version of Reoccuring Dreams, getting right mellow and even wistful. It's a nice gentle topper to the bullets that precede it, proving that this band is capable of existing at something other than the smooth lightspeed intensity that they've forged as their particular place in hardcore but still, this band is at their pure and best when they're tearing heads off with quickness and scything 3.91 CPS riffs.

Pusrad - Akta Dig/Smarttrams

Koro's 700 Club EP is one of the truly great 80s hardcore releases, however it does seem that it was sped-up in post-production, tarnishing the myth of this insane teenage-speed hardcore just a little bit. Pusrad are just as fast as Koro and even more intensely brief, releasing Smarttrams, which cuts through 7 tracks in 2:41, and Akta Dig, which is even more monomaniacal in its pursuit of brevity and pace, taking 75 seconds to blow through its 5 songs.

Just as D-Clone are pushing the noise of hardcore as far as they can take it, Pusrad are taking the second element of the genre's twin-gods in speed and attacking it with furious fucking insolence. These songs are buzzy mosquito pops, decurtate fastpunk finger-snaps, more melodic than powerviolence but just as furious. Now I just hope this doesn't come out that someone sped it up in the studio. These wounds don't need reopening.