Hardcore, as originally conceived, was a singles genre. Bands wrote songs short enough that they could fit six or eight of them on one 7", compressing their ideas into tiny and potent bursts of rage. Black Flag and Minor Threat were underground legends by the time they both released full-length albums. Black Flag managed to build a whole independent touring circuit and go through three different singers by the time they settled down long enough to get into LP mode. Hardcore has grown in a million ways over the decades, but you could argue that it still works best in quick, compact sprays. There have been dozens of classic hardcore albums, and yet the question of how to keep that music interesting -- to keep the fury and speed and intensity going -- over the course of a full album remains a real problem. It's a problem with a lot of solutions, but there's a reason why many of today's best hardcore albums are still only 15 or 20 minutes long. To make a hardcore album work, you need to figure some things out. Well, Jesus Piece figured some things out.