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Cancer Bats Birthing the Giant [Abacus] Release Date: 2006 09 05 Label: Abacus Rating:

Gaining an American release about three months after it came out in the Cancer Bats' Canadian homeland, Birthing the Giant is about as close as contemporary post-hardcore punk has yet come to the insurrectionary furor of the early MC5. The Cancer Bats are less explicitly political than the Five, for all that lead-off single "French Immersion" makes use of the word "revolution" in its chorus, but there's definitely a seething anger to singer Liam Cornier's I-hate-everything lyrics and sore-throat vocals. Guitarist Scott Middleton has exactly the right ratio of garage rock distortion and hesher-metal riffage throughout songs like "Grenades" and "Diamond Mine," and the rhythm section has the ragged-but-right looseness that the best punk requires. There's absolutely nothing new on Birthing the Giant, but the Cancer Bats make excellent use of their influences throughout. [Note: the Canadian edition, on the Distort label, has fundamentally identical packaging and the same 11 songs, but in a slightly revised running order that front-loads the album with its poppier songs.] Stewart Mason, All Music Guide

Tracks:

	Title	Composer	Time
1	Golden Tanks		3:46
2	French Immersion		3:10
3	100 Grand Canyon		2:44
4	Ghost Bust That		3:46
5	Grenades		3:51
6	Shillelagh		3:19
7	Butterscotch		3:08
8	Death Bros		4:48
9	Firecrack This		3:29
10	Diamond Mine		4:14
11	Pnuemonia Hawk		3:45

Releases:

Year	Type	Label
2006	CD	Abacus

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