Almost a decade on from their first EP, Show Me the Body still make music with the same fervour and the same motivation. Trouble the Water, the hardcore band’s third studio album, is a homage to their native New York, a place in which they’ve found community while witnessing rampant gentrification and overpolicing, themes that have stalked their entire discography.
New York was essential to Trouble the Water’s creation: it was recorded entirely at Corpus, the shared DIY space Show Me the Body founded in Queens in 2021, and welds together the sounds of iconic New York subgenres from hardcore to hip-hop. It’s as loud and haywire as the environment they find themselves in, but a shade of quiet dread is threaded throughout.
