Angular post-punk played savagely, Krautrock played with guitars fuzzed to the max, Art Trip evoke the spirit of Warsaw, Wire and Metal Urbain. Piston drumming powers through swirling feedback on ‘Ship’, which marries abrasion with a Blondie-esque pop tune. ’30 Seconds Over Rugby’ (a reference to Suicide’s seminal ‘23 Minutes Over Brussels’, perhaps?) is reminiscent of early Hole, a sludgy grunge dirge burning with vitriol and nihilism that builds to a searing crescendo of no-wave noise.
While Art Trip don’t sound like Suicide, what they do share with the more far-out punk pioneers of their ilk is a sound that’s stripped-back, primitive and direct. They also pack some decent tunes: ‘Voices’ is a dreamy shoegaze indie pop song with gritty guitars and trickles of feedback over some explosive rhythms, and builds and builds while the ferociously driving ‘Fabulous’ is rightly named, coming on like a brawl between Pram and The Jesus and Mary Chain – warped and fierce. Throughout the album, waves of crashing guitar noise blisters and burns over relentless rhythm section to magnificent effect.
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‘Nothing is Static’ tears at the speakers and gnaws at the guts from start to finish. Snotty, sneering, raw and immediate, its power lies in its simplicity.
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