They do care a lot!

Some of the critical response to This Flood Covers the Earth:

Maximumrocknroll---"Handclaps, nicely silk-screened covers, and awesome looking vinyl are a sucker punch to my reviewer heart. Next level hardcore with political leanings. Thank you sir, may I have another?"

San Diego Citybeat---"This Flood Covers the Earth is a brutal, stop-start hardcore band with distorted downbeats and a vocalist who sounds like a slightly more coherent version of Some Girls' Wes Eisold."

Strictly No Capital Letters---"This Flood Covers the Earth blend indie and hardcore to great effect, elements of Sunny Day Real Estate and City of Caterpillar; intricate, heavy, mathy hardcore with just enough of an emo influence."

Nude as the News---"There's a certain style these San Diego yelling bands have that crosses divides of genre and budget. Even had been recorded on 64-track boards with all the fixins, the vocals would still be undermixed, and certain stretches would still sound as if being fed through that one guitar patchcord you have that you know doesn't work but you won't throw out and you keep using by accident. That said, the limitations of home recording don’t affect Flood’s dependency on breakneck shifts and a mix of loud and fast with loud and faster, which can sound like Codeine one moment and the Dillinger Escape Plan the next. The spastic "How I Met Yr Mother," which can't pick a time signature but does function as a true-blue fistwaver all the way through, is the EP's best example of This Flood Covers the Earth's at once abstract and immediate will to power. I have absolutely no idea what they're talking about, but they care a lot. You can tell."

New Artillery---"I caught This Flood Covers the Earth on Tuesday at the Lily Pad in Inman Square. Aside from a few telling exceptions, I am neither a huge fan of or well versed in contemporary hardcore music, but This Flood quickly became one of those very exceptions. After a brutal opening salvo, moody instrumental passages and dynamic shifts evocative of Drive Like Jehu and June of ’44 defined the edges of their genre overlaps and helped sharpen the teeth of those sweaty, guitar-swinging bursts of aggression."

Punk Globe---"Brooding, introspective, also raucous. Be amazed."

You can buy Flood's split with Lanterns at our store, or their 7" on Dood Records here.

And we love you. In a Burt Bacharach kind of way.