After a dearth of smaller, yet awesome releases, New Jersey hardcore punk quartet Night Birds unveiled their debut LP, and began to cement themselves as one of the active best and brightest in the genre. With short, immeasurably catchy, yet still impressively intense tracks, and with surf-influenced riffing and lyrics wonderfully inspired by B-movie horror lore, The Other Side Of Darkness is an excellent representation of what Night Birds are all about. They've got the songwriting chops, they've got the necessary emotion to pull it off, and perhaps most importantly, they've got the undeniable attitude. What attitude exactly? I think the quote from Brain Damage that ends "Paranoid Times" and begins "Oblivious" says it best: "The whole world's gonna come to an end. If it's gonna go, man, it's gonna go! And I'm gonna enjoy seein' this whole friggin' world blow up! And I'm gonna be smilin' having my beer! And I'm gonna see this last blast, baby! I'm gonna see it go!"
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