after great 7inch releases on Volar and Zoo Music

Think Ian Curtis convulsive intensity and James Browns spastic swagger and you still won't have Panther

Hardcore Punk

the album covers lots of stylistic ground

THE CONVERSIONS - Prisoners' Inventions LP techno after great 7inch releases onWith a fury that bespeaks their influences without aping them, the New England quartet bash their way through fourteen tracks on their Level Plane debut, "Prisoners' Inventions." The Conversions' formula melds the mid '90s chaos of bands like Merel and Heroin with the bitterness of Reagan era American hardcore; updating both sounds for a seemingly hopeless post 9 11 world. "Prisoners' Inventions" breathes new life into the often stale hardcore milieu