Spotlight on must hear-and-see bands

15 May 2024

Band: HOT GARBAGE
Who: A turbulent noise unit from Canada formed in 2015.
They melt heavily volatile yet undeniably palatable amalgamation
of sonic elements. Calling on the driving rhythms of dark post-punk
and motorik krautrock.

New album: PRECIOUS DREAM
Their second longplayer

One of the best albums of the year to TUTV’s ears. A torrid trash,
slash and crash experience, a demonic mindfucker for demonic
minds.

PRECIOUS TIME

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LIVE at BOTANIQUE in BRUSSELS – 14 May 2024

Le Botanique is an eye-catching historic building in Brussels with different music venues, including one in the basement where Hot Garbage played on a small podium that was recently transferred from the (usual) front to the middle of the place.

It fitted the band perfectly, who played under small hyperkinetically flashing spots,
which created a tenebrous effect (obviously not dark enough for the keyboardist and the guitarist who wore black shades) that matched their wall-of-dark-psychedelia sound that went on without breaks nor brakes.

Yes, live they embedded their songs in a cacophonous, deafening pool
of raucous frenzy, sonically even more spellbinding than on record.

Imagine: Black Sabbath on acid producing a distorted chaos à la The Jesus And Mary Chain
in their early manic days and diving, at times, into a kind of prog-punk-rock turbo with the drummer as the loudest force on the podium. Pretty cool, right? You betcha. Catch them if they play in a basement near you and don’t forget to put on your dark sunglasses.

Let’s go out with masterstroke
single Snooze You Lose.

HG: Linktree

Photos by Turn Up The Volume