You’ll have encountered Tangled Talk records before: I’ve reviewed Eastbourne’s Let’s Talk Daggers and Anglesey’s Bastions here on NFI, and fellow Brighton residents may have noticed that they’re an independent label walking on the heavy side of hardcore and riffage based here in the best south coast city (SxC HxC represent and all that, but seriously, this place is waaay better than Pompey or So’ton, right).
As far as I know this is TT’s first split release (although they’re sharply followed it up with another split featuring Pariso and Kerouac again) and it’s a belter at seventeen and a half minutes in length, split between six tracks. Side A – or tracks 1 to 3 if you’re a time-travelling tramp from the past like me and didn’t get the vinyl – are from The Long Haul, whilst tracks 4 to 6 / side B are from Kerouac. Both bands share a hometown in… Southampton? Aw, fuck, sorry guys. I take it all back about your beautiful hometown, ‘k?
Production duties were handled by The Long Haul’s Lewis Johns (gtr) so there’s a consistency to both bands’ contributions that helps maintain the record’s pace and intensity, as does his familiarity with the material, of course.