PYGMY LUSH, whose members have cut their teeth in some of Northern Virginia's most influential hardcore bands of the last decade including PG.99, MAJORITY RULE, MALADY, CITY OF CATERPILLAR and CRESTFALLEN, return with their much anticipated second full-length, Mount Hope. PYGMY LUSH formed in the spring of 2005 on the very day two of their previous bands, MALADY and MANNEQUIN, broke up. They started out by carrying on much of the same ferocity of their previous endeavors but a massive change was afoot. Somewhere in their early practices they had started four-tracking several quieter songs with acoustic guitars and minimal percussion.
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