Tripper – “Rosehips”

Photo by Genevieve Moore

Though Baltimore’s current hardcore hotbed may be more known as a temperature check for pushing the scene’s boundaries further than ever off the map, Tripper don’t forget that the turning point came when the full throttle gears of Trapped Under Ice launched it into being so that bands like Turnstile and Angel Du$t could float through the air. The four-piece of vocalist Alex Szydelska, guitarist Bryan Moon, bassist Austin Reed, and drummer Michael Habif are reminders of the path more feral and heavier, complimenting the energy of neighboring molotovs, Jivebomb and Gel, in that regard, though on “Rosehips”, a highlight from their debut EP, People Die Every Day, the band buries impassioned melodicism deep into its surface as well — its soilwork of forward progression guitar and rhythm digging emotion into the deep of it. “Drag me through the mud / My mouth is full of dirt / A flower bud, feeling so disconcerted,” Szydelska growls, hellbent on blooming, thorns and all.

Tripper’s People Die Every Day is available now.