{"id":973999,"date":"2019-12-11T14:15:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T21:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=925447"},"modified":"2019-12-11T14:15:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T21:15:01","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-human-impact-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-human-impact-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: Human Impact, \u2018November\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Human-Impact-Photo-credit-Jammi-York.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Although it will never get the same hipster cred as Seattle grunge or the diehard fan base of Florida death metal, the New York noise-rock scene that gestated in the Reagan era is just as important to the development of today\u2019s underground music as its Eighties contemporaries. Human Impact, a new band that collects members from three of New York noise\u2019s most important groups \u2014 the hardcore-influenced, ultraviolent Unsane, industrial anger mongers Cop Shoot Cop, and erstwhile Lower East Side pummelers Swans \u2014 actually sounds like all these groups making a racket at the same time.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"31\">\n<p>\u201cNovember,\u201d the first song they\u2019ve released from their upcoming self-titled debut (out March 13), begins as it should, with static, a robotic drum line, and a grinding, friction-inducing guitar riff. But it really comes into its own when Unsane\u2019s vocalist-guitarist Chris Spencer starts gritting his teeth and yowling about struggling to feel empathy, losing everything, and an ocean of lies. What makes it great is how his agitation builds on the slow churn of the music, which he plays alongside Cop Shoot Cop sampler whiz Jim Coleman and percussionists Phil Puleo (of Cop Shoot Cop and Swans) and Swans\u2019 Chris Pravdica. The music seems to thrust and jut out as dramatically as Spencer\u2019s lyrics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust one more tryyy, give it some time,\u201d Spencer sings over horn samples in the bridge, before losing hope and singing, \u201cWe don\u2019t survive.\u201d It\u2019s perfectly hopeless and depressing \u2014 you just want to get lost in the fury of the riffs \u2014 and if the title \u201cNovember\u201d (an election month) is any indication of what it\u2019s about, it sounds right at home in 2019 as it would have in the Eighties. When it\u2019s done you feel as though you\u2019ve been through a meat grinder, and in the case of a band like Human Impact, that\u2019s a good thing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/human-impact-november-song-you-need-to-know-925447\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although it will never get the same hipster cred as Seattle grunge or the diehard fan base of Florida death metal, the New York noise-rock scene that gestated in the Reagan era is just as important to the development of today\u2019s underground music as its Eighties contemporaries. Human Impact, a new band that collects members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 17:14:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}