Category: punk
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grotto terrazza – kalte köstlichkeiten
A stylised, sharp, mid-century album cover will often precede a dry, synth-pop experience—it’s the go-to aesthetic for the scene. However, Grotto Terrazza has the eccentricity to angle away from formula and towards his own voice. Kalte Köstlichkeiten is tight, engaging, and sincerely bizarre. There are so many words to call it: drum machine punk, chipmunk […]
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the lounge society – tired of liberty
Speedy Wunderground, record label/verb. to rise with acclaim, while wearing expensive-looking baggy clothes and having a shaky voice. Label manager Dan Carey (previous producer for Franz Ferdinand, black midi, Fontaines D.C. and TOY) has a definite ‘type’. This is an impassioned debut album with riveting moments that nonetheless needs a weightier voice. To make more […]
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the replacements – pleased to meet me (1987)
The sparkling bling of the corporate gentleman on the cover sits alongside 1960’s film poster font and across from a ragged artist. The creative world of The Replacements interacted with expectations of modern success and an almost perverse artistic flair. A certain silliness makes it difficult to know what the band wanted—hearing their fetish for […]
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working men’s club – fear fear
Arriving like LCD Soundsystem’s unruly out-of-town cousin, Working Men’s Club take on a sinister tone that is oddly energising. ‘Fear Fear’ was born out of the New York disco scene, gathering a Prodigy-like angle for the electronical direct on its way to the present. If the tracks are unnerving, it is only to uptight antennae […]
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viagra boys – cave world
Embodying the abrasive masculinity of Jim Morrison and the insecure panic of Alex Jones, frontman Sebastian Murphy crystallises modern neurosis into a fantastic 40 minutes. The instrumentals and vocal performances are appropriately thunderous, but tightly computed with an electronic bravado. Impressively, too, the flow of the tracklist is refined despite its vitriol. One of the […]
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