Chicago's Failed Experiment Records release albums that range from punk to hardcore to new wave to alt. country. The Coma Recovery are to be filed firmly in the hardcore genre, for on Drown That Holy End in Wine these 5 guys give an extremely tired music scene (hardcore, post-rock, progressive et al) a quite welcome injection of a little thing called life ["yeah mama called life"].

Over the course of eight tracks, it's The Coma Recovery -vs- the World - and the World is having her ass handed to her in a surging series of justifiable instrumentation and stringently penetrating vocals. Like a band on a mission to take back the genre they will surely be placed in, fans of such hardcore staples as American Nightmare, SOME Records' dearly missed trio The Ghost, right through to Persona Projector - aka The Coma Recovery 1.0 - will grasp the success of this albums efforts. Those in a rush to capitalize on the band's greatest techniques need to look no further than all 9+ minutes of "Charm Of A Pessimist" - a composition that takes equal amounts of rock's inner darkness and slams it squarely with a time & space all their own. Cross each of these qualities with lyrics that are actually a pleasure to read ["We are just barcodes and milligrams / It is either thou or I, or both must go"] and you are left holding and hearing a band who is putting effort where most bands simply [re]tread. No matter who it is TCR get likened to on the useless press circuit, hearing is believing - and Drown That Holy End in Wine unveils layers most bands just can't imagine reaching. [k - June 06]

"We're not just a bar band". Yeah - we can tell.