Next in my, hopefully, continuing series profiling bands that are less than popular but I feel are worth listening to is Quicksand. In their short life they released one EP and 2 full albums. Both LPs are excellent. Their recorded debut was a self titled EP. In 1993 they released Slip on PolyGram. The single was Dine Alone and it got some airplay upon release but not enough to catapult Quicksand into the mainstream, even though they had the power of a major label behind them at this point. They were a bit too metal/hardcore for the grunge happy climate of the day.
Here is an interesting little promo video for the release of Slip:
Their second and final album, Manic Compression, came out in 1995. The production was cleaner, the songs tighter, and the band even more focused but the album never made it big. Quicksand’s legacy is in their influence on the Post-Hardcore scene of the mid to late 90s.
Previously in this series:
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