French techno-pop-punk duo KAP BAMBINO – multi-instrumentalist Orion Bouvier and singer/dancer Caroline Martial – are organizing raves on record and on stage for 20-plus years now.
Last March the inflammable tandem released their 6th album,
titled NO DOMINATION, featuring cooking single Parasite.
Who: Fast up-and-coming indie team from Isle of Wight,
England who hit the scene back in 2019
Members: Jess Eastwood (singer/bassist), Steph Norris (guitar), Joe Perry (guitar) and Guy Page(drummer)
Work: Last year’s striking debut LP Killjoy (stream/buy below)
Concert: Le Botanique, Brussels, 22 May 2024
This was the last gig of Coach Party‘s Euro tour, but with all the sweat they left
on the floor after about 75 minutes it felt like it was their first one. They gave all
of their hearts and souls, and all of their wholehearted energy, and all of their rad
power-pop-punk firepower to a rapturous ‘we knowall the songs’ fan audience. The
band thought nobody would show up on this out-of their home country trip. No-no.
They’re way more indie addicts (like me) around the world, than any mainstream fan would think, who scan the overwhelming amount of music that comes non-stop across their hungry ears, looking for envigorating stuff that draws their mind and spirit away, for a while, from the world’s daily competitive and exhausting rat race.
Enter Coach Party who took the stage in Brussels last night with AC/DC’s Highway To Hell steaming out of the speakers. A 30-second fist-in-the-air foreplay that set the shaky tone in an eye/ear blink.
The Isle Of Wight 4-piece embed their vision on all things human – good and bad – in an out-of-your-fucking- head sound that doubles your adrenalin production on the spot. If you never heard of CP check cast iron juggernauts such as Micro Aggression, July andWhat’s The Point In Life? (family and discovering awesome music, for me).
All towering pop melodies, punked-up and grunged-up, creating a fuzz-and-buzz state of ecstasy on and off the podium. The fact, they’re so down to earth and have all the fun in the world up there, pushes their honesty, credibility and lovability through the roof, that almost went off literally when the decibels went up, even more than before, with a final hat-trick of thundering left/right uppercuts All I Wanna Do Is Hate, Feel Like A Girl and Parasite. Wowzers! If there’s one thing they don’t do, it’s kill joy.
Carter: “‘Parasite’ was conceived on a particularly brutal trip to the seaside
where both Dean and I were in a difficult time in our lives and feeling low”
Scream it out, guys…
FRANK CARTER & THE RATTLESNAKES: Facebook – Instagram
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Band: THUMPER Who: Maximalist rockers
from Dublin, Ireland
“It’s a vignette of self sabotage, an anthem of small failure. It’s about a doomed relationship that carries on regardless — a narrator banging on the glass trying
to warn the song’s inhabitants. Each melody and hook competes for space over
an ever expanding wall of guitars, bass and their signature double drums. In just
over three minutes, “Summer Assault” sees THUMPER boil their trademark noise
wall into an earworm of a pop song.”
Expect a concrete wall-of-schizophrenic-guitar sound, enough twists and turns
to make your head spin uncontrollably and a gigantic chorus spiced with flustered
vocals.
New Jersey’s Veteran indie rockers YO LA TENGO (already in action since 1984)
have a new album in the pipeline, their 16th. It’s named Stupid World p, planned
to land in February 2023.
First taster FALLOUT is pure YLT. Jangly guitars rotating on and on and Ira Kaplan
signing his story all over the hurried flow. Another familiar psych jam from masters
of the genre.
Let’s roll…
YO LA TENGO: Facebook – Instagram
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Pithy rock girl meets pithy rock boy for a pithy pop-to-rock cry-out called I’M A MESS.
the song we’re about to drop is full on lookin out the window of your parents car pretendin you’re in a music video vibes.
Who: Manchester-based troubadour Christopher Eatough who returned in 2017, having spent several years away from the music scene, emerged from his struggle with mental health with a raft of new material and a renewed sense of romantic fatalism. Determined to find a like-minded, ragtag collective of musicians to help bring the songs to life, Eatough brought friends and musicians from across the Northwest together. So far the collective canned/released 2 albums:Old Songs For The New Celibacy (2017) and Book Of Want (2021).
“The track bursts with Tragicomics’ swaggering, earthy take on folk-rock. Their diverse influences – ranging from pop, folk and rock to tin pan alley, prog and Americana – shine brightly as off-kilter rock guitar is combined effortlessly with Eatough’s charismatic vocals,
the soaring soundscapes of violin, gritty bass lines and relentless drum beat.”
Put on your blue suede punk-rock shoes, you’ll need them to dance, jump,
pogo, and pirouette when this super-duper corker hits your ears. Romantic
or not it’s going apeshit time for everyone who wants to let steam off for
4 minutes.
Scottish post-hardcore punk and tattoo artist FRANK CARTER
and his RATTLESNAKES had their 4th longplayer Sticky out last year
(Carter also released 3 albums with his first band Gallows and 1 under
the moniker of Pure Love)
Two weeks ago they nailed it big time with a brand new nasty
haymaker called THE DRUGS featuring Carter‘s buddy Jamie T
Carter: “‘Parasite’ was conceived on a particularly brutal trip to the seaside
where both Dean and I were in a difficult time in our lives and feeling low”
Who: Engrossing duo producing “Intertwining feedback and harmony with equal
significance, Russian Baths paint in searing strokes finding beauty in towering, looming, incendiary noise-rock. Influenced by Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Archers of Loaf and more…”
Track: PARASITE
Score: ‘‘Parasite’ sounds both weirdly seducing because of its reflective duet vocals and overall menacing because of its heavy droning grunge sturdiness. This is an intriguing, zestful and haunting stroke that begs for more. Find out why right here…
Blustery tandem RUSSIAN BATHS from Brooklyn, New York shared their new kick-ass hammer called ‘PARASITE‘. This is what the band’s Luke Koz has to say about the track: “Have you ever had an insect burrow into your brain and force you to drown yourself? Cured
a headache with a hand grenade? This song is about these legitimate questions.”
Well, it seems like this is not your average love song, folks, rather the paranoid hangover
of a surreal and mind-damaging nightmare. And the sick result is bloody smashing! Like
a Sonic Youth eruption coupled with an exploding Nirvanesque chorus and injected with doomy male/female vocals. Play this damn loud, crush that insect in your brain and keep your hand grenade ready to erase your headache. Lots of deranged fun! Press the button right here…
After their rousing 2016 album NOSEBLEED WEEKEND (their fifth longplayer) this exciting garage pop punk trio is back with an energetic 5-track riff-o-rama EP titled PARASITE. The vitalizing ladies are ready to conquer Europe and I’ll be definitely going bananas in the first row when they play my hometown Ghent (Belgium) on 24 May. To get in the right dynamite mood let’s start to warm up this weekend. First this pretty wicked video clip for one of the vibrant kicks on that new EP. Move your furniture, make room, here’s CAPTAIN’S DEAD…
That felt really good. Let’s go nuts.
Here’s the PARASITE EP in full…
