Made In America - Deathfix (2013)

Brenden Canty (Fugazi and Rites of Spring) and Rich Morel (Blowoff) met while touring in the backup band for Bob Mould (Husker Du, Sugar) in 2009. The two, connected by a love for 1970's glam/prog/pop-rock, began collaborating on songs over the next two years and recruited multi-instrumentalists Devin Ocampo (Faraquet, Medications) and Mark Cisneros (Medications) to form Deathfix.

Deathfix released their self-titled debut on Dischord Records earlier this year. The seven song album has a nostalgic feel to it but it doesn't commit fully to just rehashing that 70's sound. There's evident influences from the likes of Deep Purple, Big Star, and Mott The Hoople but Deathfix manages to impart their own post-punk/alt-rock flavor to the recipe creating a flavor all their own.

For those of you paying attention, Deathfix may seem like an outside-of-the-box move for the D.C. based Dischord Records who made their name churning out independent hardcore and punk music over the years but then again this is just like Dischord who have never played by the rules.