Product Details
- An MVD Exclusive
- Version: Black vinyl version
- SKU: MVD12864LP
- Format: LP
- UPC: 760137128649
- Street Date: 03/15/22
- PreBook Date: 02/08/22
- Label: Nadine Records »
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Run Time: 24 mins
- Number of Discs: 1
- Audio: STEREO
- Year of Production: 2022
- Region Code: 0
- Box Lot: 20
- Territory: WORLD
Product Assets
Help - 2053
"2053" is the first full length album by the best hardcore band in Portland, OR.
- List Price: $19.99
- Your Price: $12.39
- In Stock: 31
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"2053" is the first full length album by the hardcore band Help, released in 2022 on Nadine Records. 10 songs exploring themes of anxiety, inequality, religious scorn, exhaustion and hope through a charged swirl of stabbing guitar lines, thunderous low end, and frantic bursts of barking vocals. Help was voted "Best Band in Portland" in 2019, and supported Red Fang on recent US and Canadian tours. Fronted by former Portugal. The Man member, Ryan Neighbors, Help is a wildly different beast; conjuring the unease of the zeitgeist with a political edge that feels personal. The trio of Portland music stalwarts recorded "2053" at The Map Room studio with producer Sonny DiPerri (Animal Collective, Protomartyr, Emma Ruth Rundle) whose unblinking production captures the band's urgency without taming their ferocity. "2053" channels the sound of our collective disillusionment and angst while simultaneously transmuting it into collective catharsis.
Track Listing
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Sales Points
- For fans of Metz, Chat Pile, Scratch Acid, Unsane, Meat Wave
- Personally selected by the band Red Fang as support on a US/ Canada tour in 2022
- Featuring former members of AndAndAnd and Portugal. The Man
- Voted 'Portland's Best New Band' in Willamette Week poll 2019
Press Quotes
Help is here in the form of Portland's best new hardcore band.
—Ben Salmon, KERRANG!
The new record is filled with jolting slices of post-punk menace, allowing the songs to build upon themselves before being destroyed in a sort of existential cleansing.
—Keegan Williams, New Noise Magazine
Sounds like: Your favorite pop band tore up its big record contract, joined an anarchist street gang and decided to write the soundtrack to the next riot.
—Matthew Singer, Willamette Week
2053 is a shrill battle cry against complacency in a crumbling world.
—Carissa Pereira, Eleven PDX
10 beatings, 20-some-odd minutes, a whole days worth of manic contemplation as a result. Get Help.
—Ryan Canavan, Hanging Hex Blog
