Artist focus: These Are Powers

These Are Powers

This co-ed trio is all about polyrhythmic pummel; guitars imitate industrial noises, drums clack and grind like fixed gears -- they describe themselves as "ghost-punk," but the band’s caustic heaves, shudders and sighs are more mechanical than ethereal. Subsonic bass frequencies are future primitive undercurrents to spectral guitars and banshee vocals.These are hymns over club beats, ragas piggybacking on noise collages, dirges married to dance.

The music is said to echo of old school New York, that No Wave, New York noise, Silver Apples and early Sonic Youth that you all heard and loved. It does, but seriously, it would be far more fair to spice that up with saying that these people used to be in a bunch of brilliant bands like Knife Skills, n0 Things and Liars; That they really know history and have written the future for quite some time... With that in mind, can’t you just feel that sweat starting to moist up your palms? For us, These Are Powers could be that missing link between Deleted Art favourites Big A little a...

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Megafuckers - s/t

Megafuckers

"s/t" (7")

Megafuckers consist of many older males that wish to relive their unbridled youths. They used to be punk back when it meant something. Now they install drywall for a living. They like the simple things in life; pizza, television, beer, pizza, beans, pizza, and physical abuse. They used to be in bands like Landed, the Pope, Jews, and a bunch of other shit that used to be cool. Now, they´re just...

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