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Manchester Bloodhounds SPLINT Steamroll On New Adrenaline-Charged Single AWAITING HILLS

Posted on by JL

Daily electricity to load your batteries

23 April 2023

Band: SLINT
Who: Chaotic post-punk team led by Jake Bogacki. From the misted moor
tops of Hebden Bridge, the sullen alleys of Manchester and on to black box
sweat pits of the wider UK, tipped and troubled punk/moodscape band.

New single: AWAITING HILLS

The third single to be released with influential incubator, Nice Swan Records,
the skin-tight wiry riffed, gritty verse-throwing track finds journal scribbling talisman,
Jake Bogacki, finding his true voice. One bearing the scrapes and scars of nicotine
and nocturnal misadventure.

Jake Bogacki: “The portrait of ‘Awaiting Hills’ is reflective and meaningless, creating
an idea of magnitude from the ordinary. Self-expression isn’t something that necessarily
has to be dissected. It takes the realness and meaning from a moment that’s now only
a song. It’s for someone else to find meaning.”

TUTV: These genuinely antagonized bloodhounds join the startling cast of the British rebirth of dumfounding post-punk with bands such as: Ditz, Crows, black midi, Lice, Black Country New Road and the whole roster of Nice Swan Records. Must be the one and only positive thing about Brexit as it inspired lots of youngsters to get up, stand up and embed their anger/frustration/irritation in cast iron songs.

Awaiting Hills is an adrenaline-charged steamroller pushed by barbed wire guitars, relentless percussion, and Jake Bogacki‘s sharp-teethed vocals. Its intoxicating psych groove hits you for 6 thrilling minutes. No breaks, no brakes, no mistakes. Thank you fucking Brexit.

Buy Awaiting Hills here.


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Manchester’s Psychedelic Misfits SPLINT Take You On A Mingboggling ‘145’ Jam

Posted on by JL

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21 October 2022

Band: SPLINT
Who: Splint initially malformed between Calderdale and the alley-arteried suburbs of South Manchester in 2021. Finding semi-permanent homes in walking distance of one another and settling into formation earlier this year.

New single: 145

“Where the siren calls of the band’s sharp-edged, urgent debut, Military Procedures, brought listeners onside amidst a torn and stuttering torrent, 145’s sensitive two-hander between vocalists, Giulia Bonometti and Jake Bogacki finds the band fighting emotional headwinds to crest a breathtaking songwriting peak.”

Giulia Bonometti (vocalist): “It’s about the human condition that unites every person but
also divides us. Going through life without paying attention to what is actually happening to
the people around us and settle for the “I’m fine” in reply to the “how are you’s?” Pretending to be strong when everything is falling apart and never allow yourself to be vulnerable.”

Turn Up The Volume: 60s/70s psychedelia at its haunting best. The band name New York City‘s legendary guitar-noise-explorers Television and The Velvet Underground as their main influences and it shows, but the immensely popular South-London band Dry Cleaning, who raised faster than a supersonic airplane, circle around 145 too.

But, trust me, after only two mindboggling jangly jams my excited ears
tell me that Splint will evolve into a sound-exploring direction of its own.

The accompanying video was created by filmmaker Mackenzie Thomson who walks on into the darker corners of the territory signposted by the band’s music and the deep- hearted intent behind 145’s lyrics.

Enter Splint‘s shadowy world…

Also streaming on Spotify

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