Kiss It Goodbye
She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not

LA RECENSIONE

Depression, anxiety, negativity.

Perhaps Kiss It Goodbye is the greatest example of a 90s hardcore band (in my opinion, even superior to Deadguy, a band that included three of the four members of KIG), where these feelings converge in such a direct and shocking way. Such a fundamental band, yet so quickly forgotten. Perhaps because it was too great, and for this reason, never fully understood.

Consider the early records of Helmet, those produced by Glenn Branca, and the first two albums of Unsane as a point of comparison. But everything here sounds damnably more heavy, suffocating, and painful. The production of the album, entrusted to the guru of alternative metal Billy Anderson, is perfect, claustrophobic, dark, at times unlistenable due to its heaviness. The sounds are low, gloomy, deep, acidic, the vocals are an inhuman moan, it is a delirium of urban obsessions, metropolitan, a depression rooted in the total alienation derived from the structure of civilized society, from the difficulty of human relationships, from the impossibility of discerning good from evil, which renders the subject fragile, impotent, doomed without escape to a sensory suicide.

In these tracks, you can feel and breathe sulfur's stench to the fullest, the guitar riffs sound dissonant, repeated, ragged, bestial, saturated to the core.

The opening track "Helvetica" is the reflection of a soul collapsing, destroyed by its daily obsessions, its most aberrant paranoias, and its most ancestral fears. From the frustration that is rendered into incandescent sound matter, destined to corrode and disintegrate the ears of the unsuspecting listener who ventures into experiencing this work.

Just one album, this and "Choke," a barely twenty-minute EP, to enter the history of heavy music. The band dissolved in a few years, but perhaps it's better this way, of them will remain forever the clear memory of a group unique in its madness, incomparable and unmatched, to put it another way:

Inimitable and Monumental.