PUBLIC OPINION - Painted On Smile LP hardcore clearly located in another time

clearly located in another time and space

" Within the punk and hardcore realm

Towards the end of the year

the six pieces on As If have a curious tenor – they are

PUBLIC OPINION - Painted On Smile LP hardcore clearly located in another timeCONVR86 is Painted on Smile, the debut LP from Denver's Public Opinion. One part ultra catchy punk, one part exorcism, its an album that reckons with self loathing and self doubt so thoroughly that by the end of it, maybe things dont seem as cursed after all. Painted On Smile somehow draws together the melodicism of early aughts rock, the intensity of hardcore, and the spiky swagger of primordial punk into a surprisingly cohesive blend. Lyrically, the