Wire Faces, “Matter Of The Fact”
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Greth Ligon
Is that Washington D.C.’s glory days calling? Or is that just Fort Collins’ Wire Faces? It’s easy these days to be saddled with a Fugazi comparison—just as long as the guitars are angular and the vocals are strained—but on the new “Matter Of The Fact” Wire Faces prove that there’s more to that snap judgment than just wishful thinking. Of course, the track also touches on Nation Of Ulysses’ unhinged mania and Faraquet’s straightforward melodicism, as well as embraces the rough-and-tumble pop-punk that Wire Faces’ hometown has exported for more than a decade. The full self-titled album is due May 4 on Denver’s Bocumast Records, although it’d be just as at home spiritually on the Dischord catalog.
