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Hardcore, punk, indie rock, they’re Sex/Vid crazy right now. Sex/Vid the band, not uhhh… the video genre. Sex/Vid’s been gigging around for a couple years now, and issued their first single, I guess around 2006 in the summer. Mind Eraser was in Seattle and we were staying with our friend Nick-Knack (Turner - named for his collection of cool nick-knacks all around his place) who played us a test pressing of the EP. It was about 8 in the morning at that time. No we were not raging on pills, we’d just drove for an entire day across the country, I believe Minnesota to Seattle, and we were all too wound up to sleep yet. I guess this was a good state to experience a record where the first song is called Drugging. I’ve never actually done drugs except, the kind they give you when you’re a wimp that’s allergic to dust and pollen, so this for me is the closest I can probably get to being in a “drugging” kind of state. Anyway we threw the record (or platter, haha) on and it was a real buzzsaw in the ears. Lofi, fuzzed out, snotty singer, fast n loose… as ragged as I felt right then, so it was cool to find out we were playing with them that night. I remember a Deep Wound comparison being thrown around a lot in regards to this first EP. Later when we saw them I really caught some Fang vibes too with some slower breaks they did, some of that material ended up on their Tania 7″which came out in 2007.

Anyway the show wound down, we chatted a bit, and of course, us being from Massachusetts, and they, sounding like they did, Deep Wound came up, at which point I most likely suggested that Sex/Vid cover Asprin Feast. Similarly, Asprin Feast came from the Pacific Northwest, and similarly, they had a kind of scuzzed out sound that constantly got compared to Deep Wound. I suppose they were a bit more politically minded, but it was 1990 after all, and it was the style at the time. The Police Beat E.P. I believe is the Aspirin Feast demo put to wax and is a little bit on the punky side, whereas How Do You Call The Cops On The Cops, is full on thrashing, maybe even a little faster than Deep Wound, except the dirging intro track, which is in No Trend territory or something. But while Aspirin Feast is sunk into half-obscurity, Sex/Vid seems to be getting more and more momentum. When they were on the east coast during the fall they played with precision I’d never seen on display prior. For whatever reason indie rockers, and ex-HC enthusiasts seem content to latch on to their relatively no-frills delivery as much as anyone else. Maybe it’s their above average compositional skills, or maybe it’s just the novelty of listening to hardcore (again?) for such folks. Me I just know they shred, like Aspirin Feast before them.

Sex/Vid E.P. on Painkiller in 2008, (as well as one on WYR)