End You

END YOU is the fever dream of Eric Smith, an occasionally-employed bartender and ornery little cuss living in South Philadelphia. Formerly the frontman of the Richmond, Virginia-based noisy punk collective The Catalyst, End You represents Smith's first solo effort. "I worry when I say 'solo project,' people are gonna expect Dashboard Confessional or some shit," says Smith. "This is... Not that. This is the heaviest, meanest, most violent music I've ever written." "Aimless Dread" was written in exile in a cramped, dimly-lit studio apartment off of Passyunk Avenue and recor...