Shotmaker - Mouse Ear (Forget-Me-Not)

Name: Shotmaker
Album: Mouse Ear (Forget-Me-Not)
Year: 1996
Style: Hard Core, Scream-o, Math Rock
Similar Bands: Drive Like Jehu, Shellac, Helmet, Dillinger Escape Plan
"One-Word" Review: Melodic Driving Shout-Core
Based Out Of: Ottowa & Belleville, Ontario, Canada
Label: Troubleman Unlimited

Record - A-side

Cover, Back Lyrics (taken from Perte & Fracas)

Record Side B

Mouse Ear (Forget-Me-Not) (1996)

1. Sky 3:09
2. Short Wave Radio 4:54
3. Uninhibited 5:25
4. Untitled 2:41
5. Bailer 4:17 /
6. Now and Then 4:14
7. Failure 6:22
8. Reconstructing Barriers 3:04
9. Controller.Controler 3:52
10. Driver 3:17

Album Rating (1-10): 8.0

Members & Other Bands:

• Matt Deline - Drums (30 Second Motion Picture, Dark Plains, The Grey, Three Penny Opera, Herbal Scream, )
• Nick Pye - Bass, Vox (2 Line Filler)
• Tim McKeough - Guitar, Vox, Design (Herbal Scream, Fiction Dog)
• Rachel - Artwork
• Daryl Smith - Recording

Unknown-ness: Never heard of this band. In fact, all i found of it was the record, without a cover or sleeve. So all the info i cobble together will be from the internets. From the record label that lacks the actual label's name, just comes the band name in lowercase, an illustration of a fencer, and the side determinate: prime & seconde. Not much to go on, but i gather the album is from the 1990's or 2000's

Album Review: The album is fool of melodic hardcore, sometimes driving, sometimes grooving with a math rock precision. The vocals pick and choose their battles becoming shouty or scream-o as the music gets heavier and more intense, and then relax into casual speech patterns to match musically. It is quite calculated, complex and purposeful, reminding me of the Patton./Dillinger Escape Plan recordings at times (I don't have a huge knowledge of this genre). Other than drummer Deline, the members have not previously, or gone on to do many other things, at least as recorded by the interwebs, but they did release a retrospective with all album, single, and compilation tracks records (minus their demos, apparently) back in 2000 as a double CD.

Stand Out Track: Driver 

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