Art Brut

5 BEST EPs OF 2023

Posted on by JL

1. ‘YOU’RE WELCOME’ by LAMBRINI GIRLS (UK)

Brighton‘s amazeballs LAMBRINI GIRLS are punk’s new sensation of the year
to Turn Up The Volume‘s ears and eyes, and not only to my ears/eyes, check out
the renowned critics below who are raving about them too. The three cast iron
battle-axes released their 6-track EP, titled YOU’RE WELCOME last July.

Expect 6 Apocalpyse-punk-now cannonballs, 6 in-your-male-macho-face
firecrackers, 6 full-speed- garage rock Lamborghinis. They race faster than
a Ferrari. Holy burning shit!

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2. ‘CHAOS OF TIME’ by JODIE LANGFORD (UK)

Turn Up The Volume has his eyes and ears on this kick-ass hip-rap-hop poet from
Hull/East Yorkshire, UK for a while now. Actually, since her stupendous debut single
I Miss It.

Why? Her human open-mindedness, her critical, head-on outspokenness, her faster-than-a-riot-gun ranting, and her sharp daily life observations. And last but not least the fact she embedded all I just mentioned in head-spinning and hyperkinetic tunes on her
CHAOS OF TIME EP. A 6-track triumph!

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3. ‘DEPRESSION BREAKFAST’ by Band: JAPANESE JESUS (Ireland)

These two Irish noiseniks produce an illegal amount of decibels with 5 merciless sledgehammers , 5 brutal bulldozing bangers. Industrial havoc causing paranoia.
Chainsaw guitars, psychotic drumming, sonic clash and crash chaos and mental
vocals combine for a sassy shocker of an EP.

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4. ‘ART BRUT’ by NAQOY (Hungary)

This Hungarian noise duo hit bullseye with their ‘Art Brut‘ EP.

Naqoy: “This is the imprint of the processing of our last years, which has been
emotionally and physically highly turbulent and grueling with a lot of self-doubt, discouragements, depression, burnout and forgiveness. It is also a meditation about
art and self-expression and an attempt to signal consolation to some of those (not just
artists), who feel they are somehow stuck outside of an establishment.

TUTV: Art Brut is a mind-boggling piece of instrumental work dominated by razor-blade guitars, repetitive Krautrock-like percussion, tons of feedback/distortion and terrifying plangency. No, it’s not just noise. It’s a fascinating, spine-chilling and well-structured trip into an inky universe that triggers your darkest imagination. No arty-farty bullshit or special effects production for Naqoy.

Art Brut is a flabbergasting noise Odyssey.

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5. ‘FIESTA ALBA’ by FIESTA ALBA (Rome, Italy)

Fiesta Alba are 4 masked weirdos describing themselves as “losers on a planet
where nobody really wins. He who has nothing to lose cannot lose anything.”

Last April they released their self-titled debut EP.

They look like a male, colorful masked version of the Russian political punk Grrls Pussy Riot. They mix, cleverly and masterly, math rock, minimalist afrobeat, electronica, post-punk, funk, hip-rap-hop and anything that will trigger you to get your lazy ass out of your lazy couch, move your furniture and make room for some psychoneurotic dance moves.

This chaotic 5 track cocktail EP, with 4 different vocalists, is a mind-bending tangle of all
things excitingly kooky for nightclubs where misfits, dropouts, eccentrics and other related outsiders have a ball. Yes, wicked music for wicked people by wicked madcaps. Capiche?

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NAQOY – Noise Rock Duo Take You On Flabbergasting Odyssey On New EP ‘ART BRUT’

Posted on by JL

12 December 2023

Band: NAQOY
Who: Makers of industrial, noise, post-punk, ritual
and ambient music from Budapest, Hungary

New 5-track EP, titled ART BRUT is the third instalment
of the imagined Triptych of releases – Into The Fog (2020)
and four (2021).

Naqoy: “This is the imprint of the processing of our last years, which has been emotionally
and physically highly turbulent and grueling with a lot of self-doubt, discouragements, depression, burnout and forgiveness. It is also a meditation about art and self-expression and an attempt to signal consolation to some of those (not just artists), who feel they are somehow stuck outside of an establishment.

The songs are reflections of the stages of a path from being unaware and skeptical of your own abilities (Maze) to accepting the journey to the totality of your own self (Leaves always fall in silence). If you can understand or have experienced these feelings before, you will understand what is behind the tracks of Art Brut and why we have chosen to put them in this form as you hear them.”

Video for opening piece ‘Maze’

TUTV: Art Brut is a mind-boggling piece of instrumental work dominated by chainsaw guitars, repetitive Krautrock-like percussion, tons of feedback/distortion and terrifying plangency. No, it’s not just noise. It’s a fascinating, spine-chilling and well-structured trip into an inky universe that triggers your darkest imagination. No arty farty bullshit or special effects production for Naqoy.

At times Lou Reed‘s almost unlistenable 1975 album Metal Music Machine comes
to mind. His fuck you record label LP. The difference is that Art Brut is not only listenable
but also terrifically absorbing. There are moments my ears are intimidated and my puzzled mind loses contact with reality. Mind you, I like this sort of sonic electric chair experience. When played to max volume, you really can feel the music physically and psychically.

Closing track Leaves Always Fall in Silence is the pièce de résistance.
A pitch black 8.33-minute jam that sounds as if it was composed for
a hellish horror movie.


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Art Brut is a flabbergasting Odyssey.
One of the best EPs I heard all year.
Don’t miss it.

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