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https://csiterecordings.bandcamp.com/album/demo There was a time back in the 1990's when someone would recognize you as being that person who had a 'zine and they'd hand you a demo tape at a show.  I don't want to feel like one of those older people who think everything was better back in their day, but I do miss that type of community around music.  You'd both be at the same show and that kind forged this mutual respect that you just don't get these days with emails.   But, yes, in the late 1990's I definitely could have imagined someone handing me a demo tape such as this, although the quality of the recording here is far too good. A bass line starts things off right into this hardcore / punk sound like Descendents or Bad Brains.  It just hits hard and has these break downs, but by the second song you also feel those sing along parts.   In the most vast of comparisons this can remind me both of CIV and Zipper, to the point at least where The New ...