4 Songs is the latest Ep from young vibrant noise punks Club Brat, who have been playing incendiary live shows since forming in 2023, they formed in Peterborough they are now based in Bristol and London. Club Brat are Carys Williams, Brad Stringer, Ike McCormick, Joe Smith and Nikola Mitev. They recorded the ep at HUMM studios with Dom Mitchison and Archie Jones producing and engineering, it was mastered by Bob Weston from Shellac to give it the right sort of Post hardcore punk sound.
The ep opens with 25 Cameras following us all around, can we ever escape those cameras, in the UK almost certainly not, the guitars are raging over the solid bedrock of drums and bass with Ike's repeating declaration that you feel very nice to me, being the hope in the mire of our times they hope to triumph out of.
Goodbye Pop Culture they want to destroy the modern variety of it, the propulsive explosive guitars set to destroy, they no longer want to have to discuss the latest Taylor Swift album or what is meme culture, who are the groypers, when really, they just want to ask you back to there's for a fun time if only things could be that simple once more.
In It For The Money (So-La-Ti-Do) uses some interesting effects on the vocals, with Carys' bassline driving it forwards, taking aim at bread heads, who only care about the cold hard cash and not making great art, or making the world a better place, the dark distressed post hardcore edge has driven them over the edge.
The Ep closes with Watch that has them getting so desperate, they are into self-made auto-asphyxiation videos, where we of course hope they never go wrong, when this slows down, it veers close to Shellac or Rapeman territory musically, the desperation of our times seeps through every note of this song, the agony of trying to survive in dark desperate times.
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