Coriky

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AlbumJun 12 / 202011 songs, 37m 6s
Indie Rock
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Time and how we spend it has long interested Ian MacKaye. He screamed about its passage in Minor Threat (“Why is everybody/In such a fucking rush?”), and one of Fugazi’s first songs mused on his anxiousness in starting a new band (“My time is water down a drain”). With Coriky, he is a family man with nothing to prove. The band—MacKaye on guitar and vocals, his wife (and partner in The Evens) Amy Farina on drums and vocals, and ex-Fugazi, current Messthetics bassist Joe Lally on bass)—has existed and played since 2015 but is only releasing a record now, so they sound like a veteran trio rather than newbies. The harmonies resonate like a family band, which it is. MacKaye’s guitar is simple and smart, minimalist in the way of a player who wants to convey an idea and no more; Lally is supple and subtle. Farina is rolling and smart, her solo vocals reflective of her ’90s act The Warmers. The single “Clean Kill” reflects on those who make drone strikes; “Too Many Husbands” reflects on the strictures of childhood education. MacKaye’s Dischord label has always positioned itself as a folk label—the chronicle of a group of people, mostly born in the 1960s, over time. This is the most recent iteration: adult rock for savvy adults.

Coriky is a band from Washington, D.C. Amy Farina plays drums. Joe Lally plays bass. Ian MacKaye plays guitar. All sing. Formed in 2015, Coriky did not play their first show until 2018. They have recorded one album. They hope to tour.

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7.8 / 10

Ian MacKaye and Amy Farina have a new band with an old friend—Fugazi bassist Joe Lally. Their debut is a shrewd distillation of some of the United States’ most insidious issues.

Now Ian MacKaye, if not Fugazi's leader than certainly their first among equals, has introduced a new band, Coriky, with MacKaye on guitar, Lally on bass, Amy Farina on drums, and all three on vocals.

8 / 10

Powerful and purposeful, Coriky pick up on a lively chat that Ian MacKaye and Amy Farina left behind some eight years ago as the Evens, but...

Former members of Minor Threat, Fugazi and the Evens deliver a bracing blast of moral, melodic US punk

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