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The HIRS Collective - Friends. Lovers. Favorites. (SRA/Get Better, 2018)

I've loved HIRS since, uh, last year, when I heard You Can't Kill Us, then retroactively loved them some more when I grabbed The First 100 Songs. Who couldn't love a grind band with the mission statement "TRANS, QUEER, anti-authoritarian, thrash with PUNK ethics to destroy capitalist misogynist scum and empower WOMEN, POC, and the LGBTQIA community...". And the music fucking rips. Friends. Lovers. Favorites. is more of the same except with a lot of guests (hence the title) including some high profile ones like Laura Jane Grace of Against Me!, Shirley Manson of Garbage, Alice Bag, Sadie Switchblade, and others. And the best part? They're a grind bands that knows the meaning of being succinct and to the point. This album is only 14 minutes long, and features almost no samples, which I thought bogged down some of their work (let's face it, sample-heavy grind band is a pretty 2000s look...just be a kick ass grind band). It's great.

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