Julian Cashwan Pratt (founder; banjo and vocals), Harlan Steed (founder; bass), and Jackie McDermott (current drummer) have built a name for their non-traditional, DIY iteration of hardcore, blending subterranean punk and hip hop with urgency. Pratt’s vocals are excretory, with interrogative poetry backed against Steed’s glitchy and caustic electronic experimentation. Their sound blends recklessly captivating production that challenge traditional riffs and melodies –  heavy but always honest. Musical activists, fuelling them is the alchemy of family building, the New York City landscape and maintaining a platform for community, expanded their international music community into an independent label, recording studio, and community organising platform CORPUS. Intrinsically from and for the NYC underground, theirs is a legacy of confronting and permanently shifting the rigid limitations of the hardcore genre.