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XLR8R Magazine says: Expect nothing short of electronic mayhem when you're dealing with Ohio's own Stylex, whose letest release, Tight Scrapes further solidifies the state's reputation for producing some of the most interesting post-punk and synth-based experimentation around. The band has shared the stage with the likes of The Liars, Enon, and Hot Hot Heat, and judging from the photos available on their website, their live show is not one to miss.

Foxy Digitalis gives us 9 out of 10 and says: “High-energy, brutal Techno” is not a phrase you utter lightly, especially since it seems on the surface to invite only ridicule. And yet I’m really not going out on a limb in saying that about Stylex. They play synth-based post-rock that teeters on the edges of being both danceable and not, and always seem inches away from descending into the kind of ironic, pop-techno that passes for funny in bands like Aquabats or Ween. But they don’t. Call it smarts, call it balls, call it learning the right lessons from fellow Ohioans like Devo and Pere Ubu, but Stylex hits hard and often, and you can dance to it.

This is their fourth full-length, and on tracks like “ Escaper”, “Thanks To Meet You” and “The Game” you can easily see a band hitting its stride both in terms of confidence and absorption of its influences. Though Stylex seem like a walking encyclopedia of post-punk and 80’s Ohio experimentation, they are a band with ideas of their own to spare, and more than most bands you’ll hear this month. “Tight Scrapes” rocks hard, jiggles when it wants to, and is smarter than the average Prodigy.

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the village voice says:
The musical equivalent of the Japanese hero Godzilla, Stylex are at war with the same technological nightmare that spawned them and that threatens the very existence of humankind. But instead of battling nuclear fallout monsters from outer space with fire breath and eye lasers, they use guitar and screaming with Devo/Trans Am synth sounds in reverse.

Slug Magazine says:
Tight Scrapes is half nostalgic of traditional New York Punk and eighties pop, and half awesome evolution of danceable rock. Vocals on pizzicato drive side-by-side 8-bit wobbling synth wheels and digital effects that never repeat throughout a forty-minute time-trial. It's a lovely little record; Stylex pushes nearly every song to their ultimate climax and decimation inside three and a half minutes. The first-person lyrics are equal parts of absurdly frank and frankly absurd – funny and obvious in some moments, and cross-eyed in others.

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Band Members - see all 4

• Dustin Hostetler - vocals

• Joel Roberts - vocals, synth, guitar

• Jeff Loose - drums

• Brian Kantorski - bass, synth

Discography - see all 7

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  LIVE @ the Beat Kitchen (2.15.07)

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  Tight Scrapes

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  talking heads cover for a german 7 inch never released

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  Potential Infection (AUTO FOCUS REMIX ALBUM)

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  Auto Focus