Album Review: We Cater to Cowards by Oozing Wound

Playing in the dirt Elevated by a dark sense of humor, Oozing Wound's follow-up to High Anxiety is a spastic good time with one very welcome return feature: even more anxiety! Each track on We Cater To Cowards is a compact-as-fuk mixture of atonal guitars, strung out drum patterns, and Zack Weil's earsplitting vocals. The impressive deadbeat trio from Chicago have been doing their thing for over a decade now, and it shows. They really nailed the atmosphere on this one, maintaining a sneaky focus even when things feel they're about to fall apart.

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Photo by Evan Jenkins We Cater To Cowards by Oozing Wound We Cater to Cowards is the fifth LP from Oozing Wound, appearing 11 years (say what?) down the road from the festival of thrashy hilarity that was Vape and Pillage, the band's initial release. Back then, tunes like "Autopsy Turvy" formulated the ambivalent mix of headlong energy and smartassery that has consistently and sometimes irritatingly informed their music. The band can craft absolutely riveting experiences ("Hippie Speedball," for instance, is flat-out terrific) but they have been just as ready to churn out cheap pastiche clad in flashy soloing and mean-spirited snark.

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