Codeine are another early nineties American post-rock band recently rediscovered, like Bitch Magnet, by young people, ravenous for sacred sources, and caught in the time-collapsing vortex of the internet’s immediate availability of everything.
Here’s Codeine’s slender oeuvre in one luxurious package, simple crunchy chords sliding into empty spaces over then radically restrained beats, their glacial display of punk minimalism now one of many standard modern moves.
Codeine’s defining imperative, to play melodic hardcore at abjectly funereal tempos, might seem arch, but the music itself remains uniquely open-hearted, unaffected, and honest, undiminished by distance.
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