Modern Life is War News: Carpathian Isolation

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It's difficult not to be just a little cynical about Isloation, the second full-length from Melbourne's Carpathian. After all, just two years ago with their debut LP Nothing to Lose, they were Australia's premier 'moshcore' band, their sound dominated by breakdowns and the like. So when they surface two years later signed to Deathwish with a new sound highly reminiscent of other Deathwish acts Modern Life is War and Shipwreck A.D., an album (and multiple songs) named after a popular Joy Division song and artwork that looks like it came straight from Factory Records circa 1988,...