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Last Monday, when I was on my way to work in the wee hours, I saw a rabbit getting caught in a headlight. Then the next day, about 24 hours later, I saw a person being caught in an ambulance. Both might be dead by now. This week’s soundtrack to the 5 am eeriness was carefully selected by myself and consisted of LED ZEP’s Achilles Last Stand, AYWKUBTTOD’s Source Tags And Codes and large chunks PORTER HALL’s Everything I Know Is Stolen. The latter is a record I tend to dig up every couple of months ‘cause songs from it get stuck in my head on a real consistent basis. This band hailed from Alberta, home of the Albertosaurus, and they sorta remind me of the stuff JIMMY EAT WORLD did way back when Tom Linton was still singing lead(singles comp ftw). The vocals on Everything I Know are a bit harsher and gruffier and their sound also has a slight Midwest tinge to it so they basically meet all your nineties emo requirements. Hooks are catchy as hell but somehow no one ever got hooked besides me and that guy from Dead Serious Rex of classic NYHC reissue fame. Still no clue as to why he decided to put this out as it took the band well over a year to record and another year to find a label and, posthumously, get it out. It’s just really weird they couldn’t even get the attention of any of the billion smaller indie labels out there. Anyways, I checked and it’s no longer up on the DS webstore so the link I’m posting might actually be legit. Plus I got this as a freebie myself anyway when I still visited the Good Life office more regularly. It was either this or the ENEMY OF THE SUN EP.

Online home of the revamped band:
http://www.myspace.com/porterhallisrad

Everything I Know Is Stolen:
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=6ed66947fcef4c6bd2db6fb9a8902bda


Peace.