Youth Regiment

 

Here is a short one today: there is this band called Youth Regiment from Olympia, Washington, which released a 4-track tape on Impotent Fetus Cassette / Stucco last December.

I don't know if I can really say that but Youth Regiment seems to be a side project for the "gang" who brought us some of the best bands from the area like Beta Boys and Electric Chair (David actually plays the drums in these three bands as states a tape relevantly called Davey Plays The Drums) but also great bands from Kansas City, where the Beta Boys guys are originally from, like Nuke Cult, Cryogenics, Dirty Work, The Deacons and probably many more...

   The band's first release is the super low-fi tape from 2017 where the following track is taking from. That's all I could find from the eight songs released by Chapel Of Crimes. 

The recording is so bad it's not a big deal anyway!

   

The only other thing I could find from this era is this sick live video footage from a 2018 show (unfortunately the quality is terrible as well but the energy from the images is impressive).

 

 

 

  So yes I think you got it now, Youth Regiment is playing some very 80s US hardcore punk.

 

But more than just being inspired by the 80s classics, it looks like the main goal of this new tape is to sound like it was actually recorded between 81 and 83.

And it sounds exactly like that!

But to which classics am I referring to ? California's ? hum maybe... the This is Boston Not L.A. comp ? The Midwest's ones like The Fix ? the NYC's ones like The Worst and Urban Waste ?

Well it could be different places but I think that what we are really talking about here is the DC hardcore scene.

I can easily figure Youth Regiment being on my old Dischord 1981: The Year In 7"  CD I bought when I was a teenager but I guess the most accurate one would be the Flex Your Head comp, somewhere between Deadline, Youth Brigade and The Teen Idles.

 

Ok ok let's stop playing the hardcore nerds, this tape is fun to listen to a few times, it's a successful Exercice de Style (Style Exercise), it's good hardcore punk all right!

Now let's get back to listen and play punk from our times! 

You can listen to Youth Regiment on Rien à Faire #18.

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