Album Reviews

Animal Rites
Destroy This Place – Animal Rites
7.0
 on
Monday, November 2, 2015 - 18:04
submitted by
Thomas

Recorded in just four days with Justin Pizzoferrato (Sonic Youth, Speedy Ortiz), Destroy This Place’s new album “Animal Rites” bursts at the seams with directness and a sense of urgency that... well, comes from recording twelve songs in 96 hours.

Lingering somewhere between power pop, grunge, punk and classic rock, these Michigan rockers take no prisoners and go balls to the walls on the hard-rocking “The Bees” and pretty much keep up the pace until the last notes of “Cut The Snake At The Head” ring out. Armed with tons of hard-hitting riffs, yelp-y dual vocals and a drummer who is straight up abusing his kit, Destroy This Place live up to their name on tracks like “Energizer” and “Death Metal Shirt”.  But they’ll just as well go for catchy on “Kids At The Funeral” and “Total Awareness”. Most of all though, they rock the fuck out on “Animal Rites”.

The songs on “Animal Rites” sound like these dudes took all of their influences, boiled them down to their essence and then cut that up in neat little slices of pure, unadulterated rock ‘n roll.

Tom Dumarey
Tom Dumarey

Lacking the talent to actually play in a band, Tom decided he would write about bands instead. Turns out his writing skills are mediocre at best as well.