(CH/ITA 2015, 7" produced by Pogo77)
Two young bands from Switzerland and Italy and a strong wish to make some noise, the result? A good split EP for sure (at least for intenctions)! Both the bands play since three or four years ago (as i can see from their releases), so it's nice to find a limited repress edition of a 7" (the original was out in 2014), in these days where nobody seems to want to risk some money in new music (there are, of course some exception, but we all know that now for a band that press something on vynil, there are 100 bands that don't find anyone that supports them). Two songs for the A side owned the swiss mates with a fast, noisy street punk and other three songs for the B side, where the italian punx stallions put some pogo punk influenced by the japanese sound.
I like the graphics, rude but funny for sure and the attitude that move the whole EP, and i think the two bands are well mixed together, also if they play a very different kind of sound. These guys aren't technical champions and they neither want to do that, what you will own will be just an healty bunch of punx music, for some sides enjoyable also by the oi! fans.
As already said are the Hangover Generation that open the hostility, with "What I detest", a good piece of dark, shadowed old school punk, that reminds me of bands like Breakout, Suburban Uproar or, especially in this song, the never-too-cried Surf Nazis Must Die; you know what i mean: aggresive and nuclear-age music, in certain stuff it seems also near to some bands that play metal punk. "It's never enough" is too long for my taste: when you have to fill more than 200 seconds with a street punk riff it becomes a little hard to not becoming boring and, yeah, this song is not boring but, well, i don't get it, i can't get its meaning. It doesn't have a central point and that mixer work just makes all the stuff even more confused and confusing!
Now it's the Defectives chance. For sure they are italians but, while listening to them, you would say just: "fucking nipponic people! They are always everywhere!" or some other Clint Eastwood style complaint. Nothing dark here, just some freaky, funny, catchy pogo punk rock like Ramones, Bad Engrish, Anger Flares, 00 Squad and so many more. Three notes riffs, a lot of choirs and nothing more than some demented music. I prefer, personally, this side because of this, is lighter, is more hearable and it's also well played and not a copy of other stuff, it gives me what i want when i want to laugh listening to music: the sensation that i'm not the only idiot drunk the thursday morning! I think my favourite song here is "Shall we pogo dance", that it's like the Defectives basic recipe.
Well, if you are a fan of rough-simple-fast punk music, you should give a listen to the A side, than if you like japanese pogo punx and some demented attitude, the B side will be your heaven. Some fresh air in a dead scene as the punk scene it's always a good news, and i think this EP could be a good starting point for european spikeheads to take back to their gloriuous history.
A
1) What I detest
2) It's never enough
B
3) This is pogo life
4) Fast and loud
5) Shall we pogo dance?
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