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. ~ Charles Spano