#soft cage

Body Betrayal's "Soft Cage" 12" got reviewed in this month's Maximum Rocknroll: "All judgment and obvious musings about the one sided 12" 45 format aside (to be fair, the flipside is etched, but still...), I am into this record. Simultaneously epic and erratic song structures with a crushing production, songs like 'My Gender Is Queer' demand repeat listens to fully digest. There are blasts, discordance abounds, and the vocals reach back to a time when emo wasn't a dirty word and instead implied a personal intensity. The title track that closes is a perfect (almost d-beat) burner with a mandatory mosh crammed into the middle, and a seriously dark heavy outro--a combination that kinda sums up 'Soft Cage' as a complete work. On second thought, maybe the format is perfect? I just want to move the needle back to the start when it's over...it's not as if I don't want more, but rather that I want more of this. So I'll listen again."