SMUT

picture by Myron Fung

Smut is a punk hardcore band from Los Angeles, California, featuring members of The Passing, Soma, Condition and Cemento, and has been around since 2016/2017.

 

A quick word about their late 2017 6-track demo and their 2018 West Coast 3-track and East Coast 4-track Tour tapes.
Smut delivers low-fi, nasty, part-heavy, part-fast punk hardcore songs. Heavy guitar riffs, deafeaning crash cymbals, screamed/barked vocals... the band is not playing nice, this is dirty rage and frustration you got spit out right in the face. 
Unfortunatly the recording lacks a bit of power and volume to give the songs all their space and energy and what you get, good but classic punk hardcore tunes, is probably nowhere near what the band can really deliver on stage...



  So let's jump to what really attracted my attention, their first MLP...

 picture by Albert Licano

Released in February on Iron Lung Records from Seattle, First Kiss is 8 songs of pure punk hardcore beauty... the kind of beauty that leaves nothing but huge bruises on your arms, cigarette burns on your genitals and a taste of dead pony in your throat...
 With the same recipe as on their previous releases, the recording is, this time, powerful enough to let these four guys do what they came for... burn the place down!

  picture by Rob Coons

 Iron Lung describes them as Darby Crash singing in Poison Idea...Well I agree but I would add, with more recent comparisons, that there is something of Axe Rash heavyness and snarling vocals and something of the noisy speed of bands like Impulso or even Needles to a lesser extent... and of the almighty Glue of course...

A great release, I can't wait to see what is coming next!


You can listen to Smut and other yoga pants enthusiasts on Rien à Faire #10.

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