Home Front’s Hardcore Synthpop Makes Perfect Sense, Somehow

I’ll be honest: I have no idea whether it’s even a good idea to talk about Home Front as a hardcore band. They don’t necessarily carry themselves as a hardcore band, and they don’t necessarily define themselves as a hardcore band. (Home Front’s Bandcamp tags include the probably-made-up genre name “bootgaze”; they do not include “hardcore.”) They do move like a hardcore band onstage — or, at least, some of them do. One of them remains parked behind a rack of synths and dru...

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