Drain - Living ProofDrain the Santa Cruz, CA based hardcore band, whose energetic live shows have propelled them to peak underground popularity (during a global pandemic) and they are ready to break wide open in 2023. LIVING PROOF is the band's Epitaph Records debut and follow up to their 2020 breakout release, California Cursed. The new album is a testament to the hard work and heartfelt ethos that's at the center of Drain's good time psyche. There are a couple

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their gazes fixed positively on the future ahead

graceful and flowing

Precise vocal control

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The charm of that release comes from it's set-up: it's an acoustic record that draws on the confessions of guitarist and frontperson Colleen Dow to generate visceral electricity

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Included are recordings by artists like Ella Fitzgerald

Georg Nigl is amazing in the main role

Three weeks later he left Russia and only returned in 1936

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