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Expire are a hardcore quartet from the Midwest. Their newest album is Pretty Low and it lashes out like a laceration ”it's a festering blister that always feels like it's been pulled too early, its wounds given too little time to heal." In the time since Expire released their fierce debut, 2012's Pendulum Swings, something happened to the Midwest hardcore band that's resulted in material that's decidedly sharper, more pointed and somehow meaner than before, sounding looser and even less caged. Their approach is still traditionally concise, but this time around, Josh Kelting's unfiltered lyrical barbs and Zach Dear's riffs take just a little longer to dig in and take hold. Expire has had 3 albums, and 2 Ep's and is headlining a tour thoughout the spring. Expire is currently signed by Bridge nine records and they are head lining a tour with rotting out with help from suburban scum, bent life, mizery.

Brain melt

Note to self

Do you remember just how it felt?

Bit your tongue and you just dealt

Until it all boils over

That was your first mistake

Need I remind you

What got us here in the first place?

Anxiety

Won't let me go, won't let me go

So am I crazy?

Well I don't know, well I don't know

Read more at http://www.songlyrics.com/expire/anxiety-lyrics/#7k42FEeRfZLQDiqw.99