This Philadelphia based Hardcore Punk act was started in Summer 2010, after a mutual friend had introduced drummer Joshua Cohen to guitarist Randon Martin. Knowing that they both wanted a D-Beat type of Hardcore band with a lyrical focus on real-life issues, they started jamming together, and were lucky enough to have friends in the scene to fill in the voids during that formative stage of the band.
The first actual line-up came about after the inclusion of bassist Dave Mutt, and with the inclusion of singer Deb Cohen. The latter had been in bands with her brother Joshua during the past ten years, and was enlisted to replace one of the earlier singers, when that dude could not make it to one of the band's shows. She'd written her own lyrics for the music the band had written, and shows after she found herself splitting vocal duties with the other singer. The band's line-up was subsequently settled on by criteria of availability and distance from the practice place. That same line-up recorded the band's 2-track, self-titled demo, which got released in April 2011, as well as the one-track August 2011 demo Endless War, and the March 2012 3-track 7-inch EP, released through War Torn Records in the US, and through Prejudice Me Records (from Manchester, England) in Europe. After that, Mutt apparently exited, because his role is now taken over by one George Grimaldi.
That this new EP came along was actually a fortune of fate. It so happens that the band was working towards recording/ releasing a full-length album, when during last Summer the band was contacted by CultNation.com about taking part in a covers compilation, and recording / mixing/ mastering engineer Will Yip was able to squeeze the band in for some time at Studio 4's tight schedule. Super-stoked, the band prepared for their session to the max, and laid down the 4 songs on this EP on top of the cover in record time, without even loosing any of the normal intricacies in the music! Intricacies? Yeah, there IS a very nice “complexity” to this band's music, coming not only from great breaks and changes of pace, but also in the play of the instruments...all without losing any aggression of overall melody as well! Obviously, playing Hardcore Punk means the band plays relatively short songs (the shortest on this EP being only 98 seconds long), but they dó play the occasional 3-minuter (actually 16 seconds over that), which in old days was considered an ideal length for a Pop song...and considering there's a lot more goin' on in this type of music...
Well, you can listen to all of the band's music at (www.) music.copproblem.com (which actually re-directs to the EP's Bandcamp page, from whence you can also access the band's previous EP and demos for your listening pleasure. Oh, by the way, just in case you're thinking, “Uh, Female-Fronted Hardcore?”, better think again...or rather, listen to the music first! I mean, I'd been listening to the band's music prior to checking the info, and I can say in all honesty that I never would've guessed there was a woman singing in the first place. Well, I was sure that a male was doin' sóme of the vocals in the second track, “From Within”, and paling in comparison to the band's regular singer, so...! Anyway, I am personally looking forward with positive anticipation to the band's forthcoming full-length...always provided the editor-in-chief will let me review it, you know, because normally we dó have a Hardcore “specialist” whom would have done this very review (...if it wasn't for the fact that he was “temporarily out of action” - nice for the Chief to have someone he can fall back on whenever one of the other guys on the site drops out for a while, eh?).