PYREX - Struck Down / Staying Alive 7"

Highly recommended.

Brooklyn’s Pyrex joined Die Slaughterhaus Records’ new wave of grimey post-punk adversaries.

Both numbers plunge the group into menacing depths while revealing a dark sense of humor. The trio summon bludgeoning intensity with “Struck Down.” On the flipside, a perfectly nasty cover of the Bee Gees’ disco-era classic “Staying Alive” feels like a Killed By Death deep cut that was captured at a construction site–grounded in dense rhythm and noise–as Hardwick’s distorted growl finds new meaning in the lyrics, “Life goin’ nowhere, somebody help me.”