Unfashion's American debut, Emotional Kids Play Alone, finds this Brazilian quintet attempting to stand out in the hardcore scene with a style reminiscent of early Deftones.

The band's ethnic background has little effect on their portrayal of hardcore, as the lyrical content deals with social and political philosophies common with the genre, though David Zaidan's broken English is an understandable problem that sometime skews the lyrical value with grammatical mistakes.

Musically Unfashion could be compared to Deftones, yet there is also a flavor to each song which brings to mind such Caribbean acts as Puya.

"Will Ya Fuck Me?" and "Control by Crack" fully represent all that is Unfashion and are two of the best songs on the nine-track album.

While there is nothing extraordinary about them, Unfashion has managed to compile an album that has merit in being bold and daring; many hardcore bands outside of the United States find it to be an uphill battle to be embraced by the unified hardcore community.

If there is a band who could change this, Unfashion is it.