{"id":1852,"date":"2011-06-15T16:58:20","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T22:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=1852"},"modified":"2017-08-30T21:07:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T21:07:15","slug":"lost-under-pressure-come-clean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2011\/06\/15\/lost-under-pressure-come-clean\/","title":{"rendered":"LOST: Under Pressure &#8211; Come Clean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/underpressure_come_clean_cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1853\" title=\"underpressure_come_clean_cover\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/underpressure_come_clean_cover-298x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nUnder  Pressure were a significant Winnipeg hardcore group, and this album was  their master offering. By the time <em>Come Clean<\/em> was released, the group\u2019s  members had been making music for years together, and this album  perfectly represents a height for them as a group. Hardcore is an  extremely formulaic genre that can be easily replicated. People take  cues from bands such as Poison Idea and Black Flag, as Under Pressure  initially did, and replicate them in their own way. This makes way for a  lot of very mediocre representations. Over time, the music that these  players loved was internalized and practiced in perfection, usually  causing other bands to pale in comparison. Their devotion to form  eventually turned into mastery and this album represents that moment in  time. <em>Come Clean<\/em> is not just a hollow repetition of forms from the past. Rather, it is  those forms mastered through dedication over time and presented for  others to take cue from. A step away from their earlier, faster and more  youthful hardcore sound, <em>Come Clean<\/em> lies in a darker, more serious territory on its own. Taking more of a  rock direction, the listener is grabbed and assaulted aurally from the  first riff of the album. Lyrically, the harshness of existence is  presented in a notable step above average, further separating this album  from the masses of thoughtless clones. <em>Come Clean<\/em> will leave an impact on those who hear it for years to come. As time  progressed and line-up changes occurred, the quality of the band never  diminished\u2014Under Pressure\u2019s conclusion in 2009 denied the band the time  needed to surpass Come Clean, leaving it as their masterpiece to which heads will nod to in the future. (2006, Primitive Air-Raid,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.primitiveairraid.com\/\"> www.primitiveairraid.com<\/a>) <strong>Kevin Strang<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under Pressure were a significant Winnipeg hardcore group, and this album was their master offering. By the time Come Clean was released, the group\u2019s members had been making music for years together, and this album perfectly represents a height for them as a group. Hardcore is an extremely formulaic genre that can be easily replicated. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[563,1146,1049],"class_list":["post-1852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lost-found","category-reviews","tag-local","tag-lostfound","tag-under-pressure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10721,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions\/10721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}