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Functioning on Impatience
Coalesce
Functioning on Impatience
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock, Metal
 
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While many have imitated and a select few have taken the complicatedcore sub-genre of hardcore to new heights, none have matched COALESCE?s ferocity, density or unorthodox nature. From the stunning medical text-inspired pa...  more »

     
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All Artists: Coalesce
Title: Functioning on Impatience
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Second Nature
Release Date: 4/16/2002
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock, Metal
Style: Hardcore & Punk
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 822575001028

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Album Description
While many have imitated and a select few have taken the complicatedcore sub-genre of hardcore to new heights, none have matched COALESCE?s ferocity, density or unorthodox nature. From the stunning medical text-inspired packaging to the slower, groove-oriented undercurrent winding its way throughout COALESCE?s trademarked sonic onslaught, Functioning On Impatience is completely without remorse, but thoughtful and methodical in its delivery. Opener "You Can?t Kill Us All" begins with one of the most damaging condemnations/proclamations ever committed to disc, before the music of COALESCE lurches forward. Functioning On Impatience is littered with punishing metallic riffs, coupled with crazed technical runs that throw the proceedings into utter chaos, and is anchored by an utterly distorted bass, peculiar guitar noise and more time changes, tempo shifts and stop-start parts than one can possibly keep up with. Serving as a perfect compliment to the music?s irresistible malevolence, Sean Ingram?s challenging lyrics are delivered with such bile and power that their vehemence may never be replicated. While COALESCE?s internal strife and divergent personalities eventually silenced this lumbering behemoth, ultimately the music remains as everything else fades to black, and Functioning On Impatience cements COALESCE?s place in hardcore like few albums before it or since.
 

CD Reviews

A Disgust for Details
A. Kohler | Louisville, KY | 03/07/2003
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Ok, this has got to be hands down one of the hardest hitting hardcore albums of the past few years. This album is brutal. An amazing hardcore album by an amazing hardcore band with amazing talent. A superb offering and effort, from everyone envolved. The layout and packaging is the best I've ever seen, Second Nature is a great label that release great stuff, and this is up there with the best. The LP packaging is truly breath takeing. Ed Rose is probably the best and most underated producer around. He does a great job with this album, as I said before, he is an amazing producer. And the band...it's Coalesce for God's sake!! Definatly one of the best hardcore bands of the "new generation", a band that will go down in hardcore history for their chaotic live shows, unmatched talent, and for albums like this. Sean Ingram is a lyrical genious, and has an amazing voice that is truly unique. This is probably my favorite Coalesce album; it's short, brutal, and heavy. The way hardcore should be."