Smirk's "Speculative Fiction": A Lo-Fi Breakthrough from Hardcore Punk Roots
A review of Smirk's album "Speculative Fiction" by Nick Vicario, a musician who transitioned from the hardcore punk scene (bands like Crisis Man, Cower, Public Eye) to a solo project exploring reckless and destructive behaviors through lo-fi, scuzzy sound. The album represents a breakthrough moment that came as a gradual epiphany rather than a sudden realization.
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Nick Vicario needed distance from the thing itself.
He was indulging in the reckless, destructive behaviors that tend to be more alluring in song than in practice.
In a breakthrough moment he says came to him as a gradual epiphany rather than a dis
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