bio:
Stop It!! came into this world on Halloween of 2001 in Richmond,
VA. Two months later, they quickly recorded a 7-song demo and
did a short tour--neither of which anybody seemed to notice.
They continued to do that sort of thing for quite some time,
playing sloppily with shitty equipment and alienating many people
along the way. In an effort to try and squash crowd expectations,
they worked hard and saved up for better equipment and practiced
more often. This occured sometime around the release of their
full-length record "Self Made Maps," (Robotic Empire/Perpetual
Motion Machine). The band has trouble taking themselves seriously,
enjoys karaoke and 20 questions.
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 prog hardcore. -- Charles Spano / allmusic.com
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