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Hardcore has and will always be a political front against conservative values, fascism, and social injustice, but even more forthright, the music of MOVE is focused on making brutally visible the Black experience not only within the hardcore scene but everywhere around us. The Boston five-piece of vocalist Corey Charpentier, guitarists Nick Hochmuth and Andrew Crumby, bassist Jake MacLean, and drummer Devon Austrie chose Juneteenth explicitly as a reason to announce that their debut full-length, Black Radical Love, would be arriving later this summer, and of the two early singles released alongside the news, “Summer Trend” punctuates their intentions why. On this listen, they’re joined on vocals by Kayla Philips of Bleed The Pigs and River Elliot of Ballista in casting fury over the fallout of Summer ‘20 where performative politics is challenged by their head charge of heavyweight riffs and confrontational callouts. “No motivation just more of the same / Your view’s been skewed and it’s nothing new / Black Lives aren’t a trend / Why can’t y’all see this through till the end?,” shouts Charpentier, right on in his instincts and hopefully, hitting his point through hard that these issues haven’t gone away just because they’re no longer fashionable to signal boost for clout.

MOVE’s Black Radical Love will be released August 11th on Triple B Records.