Thought Control- Sick & Tired Of The Talking Heads Cassette

One time edition of 100 tapes.

Considering the hard-on we’ve got for straight up, no nonsense, first wave USHC, you would think we would’ve managed to release some by now. Unfortunately, we are not coastal elites with social cachet and cool friends, so most things in that vein we’d be interested in releasing have already been snatched up by much sicker labels by the time we hear them. But as luck would have it, New Jersey’s Thought Control have taken a real shine to us, and, for some reason, they agreed to let us release their newest EP.

Thought Control is the brainchild of one John K., who started the band as a solo endeavor in mid-2020. Since then, they’ve coalesced into a full band and churned out two phenomenal slabs of softball pitch hardcore punk that stand up against just about anything released over the last 20 years. If you liked Negative Approach in 1984, Out Cold in 1994, Government Warning in 2004, or Boston Strangler in 2014, you will like Thought Control in 2024. This newest EP, Sick & Tired Of The Talking Heads, is arguably their strongest material yet, offering up 8 tracks of ripping, stomping hardcore that is literally impossible to dislike. If history doesn’t remember Thought Control with the same reverence it will likely remember Armor, Bootlicker, and Concealed Blade, it is solely due to scene politics, because this is as good as contemporary hardcore gets; Quote us on that shit.

And that’s that. If you read comparisons to Negative Approach and Out Cold and weren’t immediately sold, you’ve likely found your way to this page by mistake and should go back to listening to downtuned nu-metalcore masquerading as hardcore. Loser.