“The indie music people where I was living when I was listening to the demo and LENS didn’t, couldn’t understand this. The sincerity and earnestness of hardcore was a joke to a lot of them. This was about the time of the start of the irony outbreak, when nothing could ever be serious, where everything was a mere gesture at something else, when nothing — musical or otherwise — could ever be what it actually was. This music, I felt, was music that only kids from central Connecticut, from home, could really understand.” - From Goodbye to Hostage Calm

the breakup of hostage calm is not good for connecticut