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Manic Compression is the second studio album by American post-hardcore band Quicksand. It was first released on February 24, 1995 on vinyl through Revelation Records, before being given a widespread CD release through Island Records on February 28, 1995.
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Quicksand is an American post-hardcore band from New York City, founded in 1990. Their debut self-titled EP was followed by two major-label albums, Slip (1993) and Manic Compression (1995). Quicksand's sound has been compared to that of post-hardcore bands Fugazi and Helmet.
- Geoff Rickly
- Kyle Bishop
- Michael Macivor
- Nick Cogan
- Ned Russin
Lead singer for Thursday, United Nations, and No Devotion My introduction to Quicksand happened in the summer of 1993 at Newbury Comics in Salem, New Hampshire. That’s where I spent hours browsing cassette spines and print publications while listening to what was “Now Playing”—with said album usually on display near the store’s registers. Got a viv...
Lead singer for Grade Quicksand itself was sort of a happy accident for me, where a guitar player from Chokehold gave me the first 7-inch they did on Revelation Records. He’d just gotten it and said, “Here—you’ll probably dig this.” And I did. I had known about Gorilla Biscuits before, but that was my first exposure to Quicksand; I was probably 18 ...
Bassist for Candiria Quicksand were a super important band, I think, to the development of Candiria, even if it isn’t obvious. A lot of times, people will ask what heavy bands were crucial to the development of the Candiria sound, and a lot of people expect to hear more progressive rock bands or jazz bands, but also heavier bands, because when we f...
Guitarist for Drug Church As a person who was born in 1991 and wasn’t a conscious absorber of really anything until the early 2000s at the earliest, I hardly feel qualified to talk in any official way about records of the 1990s. But Quicksand and their 1995 record Manic Compressionis something I have really early memories of, and I think it played ...
Bassist for Title Fight; everything for Glitterer There’s something difficult about getting into bands from a previous generation. Understanding the context, both at the macro-level of the scene and micro level of a discography, is something that can be difficult to discern at first. I don’t know how I got into Quicksand—probably through my older b...
Polydor released the band’s debut album Siip in 1993 as Quicksand toured across the US and overseas. The follow-up Manic Compression (1995), released by Island Records, reached #135 on the US ...
Distant Populations, just the fourth full-length album of Quicksand’s career, comes as a comparatively swift follow-up to Interiors--which itself came a full 22 years after its predecessor, 1995’s Manic Compression.
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On their second album, Manic Compression, Quicksand manages to properly utilize feedback, mixing it up with grinding chords and dynamic guitar nuances to create twelve tracks with an aggressive sound that transcends traditional hardcore and three-chord punk.
