Stop It!!

With a sound as reckless and disorienting as At the Drive-In, Stop It creates a flurry of dark and subversive hardcore shrouded in the noise of mid-period Sonic Youth. The Richmond, Virginia band formed in 2001, playing their first show -- appropriately -- on Halloween night of that year. In 2003, Stop It released their first album -- a harrowing cross between Daydream Nation and Minor Threat's Out of Step -- on Richmond hardcore and screamo imprint Robotic Empire. Though often tagged with label, Stop It is hardly math rock, more accurately they probably fall under a rubric like progressive hardcore.
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