Anything Can Be a Hammer by Bloodsports

For fans of Chat Pile, Unwound, Have a Nice Life, the heavier elements of slowcore, and the monumental task of accepting the flaws and limitations of the world you’re inhabiting, Anything Can Be a Hammer by Bloodsports anchors us in our fragile bodies and flawed contexts with a dissonant, dynamic approach to indie rock songwriting. A diverse range of sounds and structures feed into this compact statement, guitar work bristling with difficult harmonies through distorted chords, twinkly riffs, relaxed strumming, and everywhere in between. Lyrics tell an abstract story of shattered idealism, using the record’s abrasive aesthetic tendencies to pull us face-to-face with the exact infuriating imperfection which will always haunt our expectations for ourselves and our lives. No matter where we see ourselves going in our mind’s eye, sooner or later we end up in the sonic landscape of Bloodsports, left with no choice but to accept this gift of beautiful chaos or continue escaping into impossible fantasy.