Over the last couple of months I’ve been crushing hard on this Syracuse band. Quite a few people in musiclandia have been equally enamored with this band, fronted by a true force of nature in Meredith Graves. Way back in the 1990s I used to listen to this type of music an awful lot more than I generally do now and while I can’t claim any representative knowledge on where the various streams of hardcore music have gone since the turn of the century, I know quality when I hear it and this band has loads to spare. Musically and lyrically the band deserves every single bit of shine they’ve gotten in the last sixth months or so. And then there’s Graves. Being a hardcore band with a woman singer would be novelty enough in the fairly ultra-masculine world of punk rock. Graves is no novelty. She might just be the real deal, a bonafide star in the making. I hope she and her bandmates are able to develop freely because they got something special right here, with this sound and this style. “Big Stars” is just fine all by it’s own, pulling you in with with those guitars and big drums before settling into a tornado of sound with Graves at the lead. But what it hints at is something even greater. Say Yes To Love is a nice debut, already one of my favorites and something that I can guarantee I’ll feel even stronger about come year’s end, but this band’s best days are ahead.