Kal Marks
Life Is Alright, Everybody Dies
Exploding In Sound Records [2016]
Fire Drill Album Review: Boston’s Kal Marks sophomore effort, Life Is Alright, Everybody Dies, is brilliant. The album evokes and pulls you towards tones of deep and dark, murky then jangly, and emotions that are dour and anguished but somehow hopeful despite feeling as if you are drowning in a pool of thick despair. Life Is Alright, Everybody Dies is a wonderful blend of off-kilter vocals and heavy, chugging guitars. A noise-laden rock opus. Kal Marks hits all the right spots that bands such as Pile, Krill, and Fat/Bad History Month hit. One of my favorite records of 2016. Just incredible.
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– Reviewed by Daniel Taylor
Photographer/journalist for the U.S. Navy for 26 years. Music fan since forever. Music really hit him in the early 90’s when he heard the Pixies’ Doolittle LP. After that came Pavement and then Guided by Voices. His love for those bands formed his taste in music and he continues to search for that musical “high” today. Married for 18 years and currently lives in Japan.
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