Review: Haram – S/T

On first blush, this quartet’s 11-song full-length debut may feel like a fuzzy mimeograph of Fugazi shortly before the century turned. But, after two or three listens, the group’s textured, clattering guitars and half-shouted verses prove to be their own elixir. The record’s middle section — particularly the plodding “Deal,” the buzzsaw-blitz of “Disease” and the sprawling, emotive “Plastic Hearts” — is the most intoxicating and features the songs most likely to leave you hungry for more. – Punk Planet, July/August 2006

About the author

Justin Vellucci is a staff writer for PopMatters, Spectrum Culture, and MusicTAP, a contributor to Pittsburgh Current, and a former staffer for Popdose, Punk Planet and Delusions of Adequacy. His music writing has appeared in national magazines such as American Songwriter, alt-pubs like The Brooklyn Rail, Pittsburgh CityPaper and San Diego CityBeat, blogs Swordfish, Punksburgh and Linoleum, and the Gannett magazine Jetty. He lives in Pittsburgh.