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Knocked Loose: You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To review – hardcore punk’s dark stars go supermassive
The Kentucky metalcore quintet cleverly channel pop – and even reggaeton grooves – to create an album of crushing intensity and vast scope
A bright node in today’s wonderfully diffuse hardcore punk scene, Knocked Loose formed in 2013 and, via viral shows at US festivals such as Coachella and Bonnaroo that respectively drew kale-enamoured influencers and larky stoners into their circle pits, have built a sizeable buzz. Two-part suite Moss Covers All/Take Me Home has a house “clenched in the teeth of endless rain, barren moor”, and gothic settings like these frame songs full of Job-like struggle against an uncaring or actively violent world: Slaughterhouse 2 denounces an America of “total war driven by the lower class … one mutilation under God”. They have always had headturning samples – early song Deadringer abruptly ends with smooth 80s soft rock, while A Tear in the Fabric of Life had snatches of the Beach Boys, Appalachian folk and the sound of a shovel in earth.
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