13 avr 2012 - YOUTH AVOIDERS US TOUR STARTS TOMORROW !

« Irreverence » contains four new songs by Exhaustion from Caen (Fr)… These songs were recorded in the Normandy countryside at Swan Sound Studio by Guillaume « The Conqueror » Doussaud. Exhaustion plays straightforward punk-hardcore influenced by several generations of punk bands from crust of the 80′s to more modern stuff. Don’t expect the now usual « neo-crust » thing but just some powerful punk made from d-beat rythmics, direct riffing, angry vocals and dark sociopolitical lyrics. This 7″ comes with a 8 pages booklet containing lyrics and various texts dealing with the subjects treated in the songs : atheism, world wars influence on today’s world, human self-limitation and self-destruction… It’s a corelease with our long time friend and great label Stonehenge records.

After the release of Ausserwelt, awesome record and critically acclaimed second album by YEAR OF NO LIGHT, we started talking last year with our old friends from Bordeaux about releasing something new from them. We talked about several projects of split and collaborations and eventually all agreed on the idea of sharing a new record with THISQUIETARMY from Montreal, Canada. This record pushes the idea of sharing a record to the extreme. Both sides start with a new song from each band, long songs (approx 12 min) which let both bands enough time to developp their own ambience full of intensity and melodic loops. These new songs are followed by collaboratives drones which prove that these two bands were made to work together and share a record…

This new release is a kind of 10 years birthday present for Destructure. Destructure started as a distro at the very end of the 90′s and our first release was HIPPIES OF TODAY 10″ which came out in december 2001. Hippies of Today was a grind/punk band from Caen & Le Mans (France) which was very active in the early 2000′s. They released a « s/t » 10″ and a split 7″ with The Index as well as a CD collecting all these songs. They played lots of shows in France, a european tour in 2002 and then disbanded due to lack of time and distance between members. Few months ago, at the end of 2011, HIPPIES OF TODAY members were asked to record a new album for some kind of label 10 years celebrations. After a couple of rehearsal week ends, the trio recorded 10 songs by itself in december 2011…