Powerful in every way, this DC hardcore group's first full-length is the siren song to having no home as a person of color—in punk, in society, in America. It could not have arrived at a more appropriate time. Bandcamp Album of the Day Jul 15, 2016
These marauding punk songs—featuring Mary Timony, Alec MacKaye, Mark Cisneros, and Chris Wilson—summon the spirit of classic D.C. hardcore. Bandcamp New & Notable Jul 22, 2019
Taking inspiration from the classic Burning Spirits sound and early '80s American chaotic hardcore, this DC band is ferocious. Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 21, 2018
Toronto band Respire deliver a post-hardcore tour de force on the largest scale possible, orchestrally rich and incessantly uncompromising. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 6, 2021