Speedway Refrain

I received the new Speedway album, A Life's Refrain, back in April, but the box was so badly damaged that the record ended up with a warp that left the first song unplayable. I was disappointed and just tossed the record on my desk... and soon it was covered with a bunch of new books that I'd received, and I forgot about it. When I was trying to organize and clean up all the clutter on my desk months later, I saw the Speedway record. I slid the record from the cover to see if the warping was as bad as I remembered... and I couldn't find it. Seems that forgetting the record under a pile of books fixed the problem for me.

Because of my initial disappointment with how the record arrived, I didn't bother listening to this Speedway record... and the longer it sat there, the less I was interested in it. I don't know what my problem was, but I couldn't get myself excited to listen to this album. As we close in on the end of the year, I knew that I was going to have to get this record up on the blog, and so I gave it a spin... and it clicked with me immediately. Man, this record is so good. I liked the band's two 7 inches, but I don't really remember much about them, but this record is so good, I'm going to have to go back and revisit those as well.

Sometimes this kind of hardcore hits perfectly with me, and this is one of those times. This band always makes me think of Damage Control, so I guess it is time to pair A Life's Refrain with What It Takes, and let them rip.