OUT NOW 02.03
7 MOON DUO Shadow Of The Sun
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Sacred Bones (2015)
Know that feeling of cranking up L.A. Women or Rated R and driving along some coastal line under 35 ºc feeling nothing could possibly bother you? On this new chapter of Moon Duo’s dusty odyssey they cross paths with John Jeffrey, and that - I suppose - makes them a trio. Whenever Moon Duo decides to had drums to their music they seem to imprint a certain degree of extra energy, and this time it is even harder not to move some part of our body when playing the album moderately loud. On the other hand, having a drumbeat to keep things going allows the other instruments to slow down a bit and immerse in deeper waters. The album was written during a restless touring period, high on the adrenaline of traveling and playing loud rock’n’roll, but it also comes with a natural feeling of unsettledness.
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RICARDO ALMEIDA
Bardo Pond, The Black Angels, White Hills
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OUT NOW
NAPALM DEATH Apex Predator – Easy Meat
Century Media (2015)
Here’s a band that will shake these pseudo indie rock foundations. Spanish new wonders Mourn harks straight back to the primal howl of Sleater-Kinney, that goes from Patty Smith Horses’ style to the short classic takes from The Ramones with that raw and melodic approach of Pixies meet Nirvana 90’s golden era. Ranging between 15 and 18 years old, there is a sense of authenticity and completely full-awareness beyond their age. Mourn is like a sweet-and-sour sonic adventure, a lo-fi punk rawness full of sophistication that will make blush some of the big and fabricated new acts that sound like their were an imitation of others imitations. Full of reckless, bold and daring, this might be your new favourite band...
Whenever these chaps release a new record, you know their quality standards won’t drop. Napalm Death just don’t allow themselves to get stuck in the same old formulas. Apex Predator – Easy Meat keeps that tradition and consistency intact by managing to sound more diverse than Utilitarian. You’ll be hearing everything, from punk infused rhythms, slow dissonant crushing riffs to, of course, those hyper fast, blast-beat grinding bursts of riffing violence, accompanied by Barney Greenway’s ever-so constantly pissed off growling barks at the world. What makes it interesting is that all of these appear most of the times tightly fused as different sections within a single song. They may be nearing thirty years, but Apex shows that Napalm Death still give current grinders like Pig Destroyer a run for their money. One of the mandatory releases of this year.
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FOR FANS OF:
MOURN Mourn
Captured Tracks (2015)
FAUSTO CASAIS
PJ Harvey, Ramones, Patti Smith, Nirvana
LUÍS ALVES
Pig Destroyer, Brutal Truth, Dying Fetus