Temper Tantrum
Hometown: Toronto, Canada
Album: Baby Blues, out now via Self-release
Raise your hand if you’ve wanted to scream as loud as possible at least once these past couple years. Put those hands up, liars. There’s a lot to be frustrated about, and if you want to channel all that frustration during a five-minute break between video calls, boy howdy have I got an EP for you. Temper Tantrum’s take on hardcore feels delightfully old-school—think Cold World and Blacklisted but written by guys who also listen to country music. The Toronto hardcore scene is astoundingly fertile, and if these five minutes are anything to go by, Temper Tantrum’s musical tears will bear fruitful musical output for a long time.
Bassist Paul Marshall expands on the band’s ethos:
“You really hit the nail on the head, and so did Ross Rickers with the artwork, by the way! The idea behind Baby Blues as a record and Temper Tantrum as a band is that there’s a lot to be mad about out there, and that there’s better things to do than cry about, but also, here we are crying about it! Honestly, Temper Tantrum is all about us having fun, having an outlet for our stress, anger, and negative bullshit, and us wanting to do right by each other as a unit. We’ve had nothing but time to write and jam and get to know each other better the last little bit, and we’ve written these songs, and a bunch more, we’re all really proud of.”
Stream “Bag of Tricks” here:
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Photo courtesy of Temper Tantrum and Madison Ross
