CURSE (vinyl)

Description

ILS — pronounced [ ilz ] — is a band from Portland, made up of 4 guys who already have a long road behind them: Tom Glose (Black Elk) on feverish vocals, Nate Abner (The Days, The Nights) on guitar, Tim Steiner (Passerby) on drums, and Adam Pike (White Orange) on bass. ILS knows its stuff: harsh, eruptive blues set in a wall of guitars. One could speak of the bulldozer of Cosmic Pyschos, but one will also think of the bloody Unsane for the heartbreaking melodies that make your head spin. One will also remember The Jesus Lizard for this sonic oppression. With ILS, there is therefore this lineage from the loudest of the 90s, a powerful rock that, like lightning, goes in through your ears and comes out through your feet. Behind this electric foam lies a whole rage rising from deep within, a desire to fight, a need to scream. We suffocate, we exult. The melody haunts and the head spins. The breath is short and the temperature is humid. At the crossroads of rock, noise, death, and hardcore, there is ILS. No compromise.