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Edgar: '90s Long Island Hardcore Band Comes Back with Full-Length LP in Tow

Photo: Trina English

Unheralded '90s Long Island hardcore band Edgar is back, and ready to re-introduce themselves to the world.

Their first run as a band was short-lived – just 1994 to 1996 – but after getting together two decades later for a reunion show, the band found themselves reenergized. This new energy coupled with the COVID pandemic found the members of Edgar writing themselves right into their first-ever LP.

Places We Live, Places We Die, the band’s fully realized full-length, dropped just last week as a co-release between Sunken Temple Records, Council Records, and Small Hand Factory. 

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Musically, Edgar’s sound still harkens back to the music that swirled around the Long Island underground hardcore in the mid-'90s. There’s plenty of the driving powerful melody one expects from LIHC coupled with the ingenuitive sound so emblematic of the DC scene of years past. And there is an inventiveness to bringing this sound back: there isn’t much of it going around these days. Certainly not played with the acumen that Edgar provides.

 

The band is simply taking things slowly and without pressure from here on out. It seems that Edgar is mostly just happy to be back and to be creating great music again. Check out “Count to Five” one of the songs from the full-length, and pick up the vinyl from Sunken Temple Records or Council Records.

Places We Live, Places We Die is available now on vinyl and digital via Sunken Temple Records and Council Records.

Edgar on social media: Instagram
 

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