Your favorite band’s favorite band, Cohoes New York’s END OF A YEAR SELF DEFENSE FAMILY enjoys a distinct renown within the punk community. Well respected and critically lauded but difficult and idiosyncratic, the band has done things their way almost to a fault. Eschewing singalongs and easy anthems in favor of personal lyrics, END OF A YEAR SELF DEFENSE FAMILY stands apart from their contemporaries in punk and hardcore. Their strangely tense guitar work framed within otherwise hook laden songs lends the band an unmistakable sound. Opting to be heavy in emotional rather than heavy in sound. I Heard Crime Gets You Off/To Your Scattered Bodies Go are two deep cuts from the END OF A YEAR SELF DEFENSE FAMILY, reflecting their patient meandering style of story telling. “I Heard Crime Gets You Off” was recorded at Tuff Gong Studios in Kingston, Jamaica.

SIDE A
1. I Heard Crime Gets You Off

SIDE B
2. To Your Scattered Bodies Go

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