picture by Leighton Hoey
Vangas is from Atlanta, Georgia and has been developping a new kind of fetish for sex with goblins since 2017 (at least!).
But let's focus on these guys' music...
I can smell the Chloroform, Cha-Cha-Cha EP is the first band release (online only, end of 2017) and is a good occasion to enjoy, on top of the band obvious taste for the spooky and creepy, four (good) songs of high energy low-fi garage punk.
4 songs? but it's a 5-track EP?
4 songs? but it's a 5-track EP?
Ex-ac-tly... the fifth song (Jackson is Dead) is mostly noise and guitar-pedal-versus-larsen wandering... a good introduction to what the band will offer next...
In 2018 the band releases (on bandcamp) a live recording of their Industry Night show on October 20, 2018 in Athens, Georgia. And, as they explain themselves "A large portion of the performance is nothing but improvised noise, or
just us fucking around with guitar pedals and swinging mics across the
room" in which pops, from time to time, a song or two from their first EP...
Yes these young boys don't like to play it nice and clean and their taste for dirt and noise will soon bring them to other shores...
Yes these young boys don't like to play it nice and clean and their taste for dirt and noise will soon bring them to other shores...
Facial Tissue, Vangas' first full length, was released (on bandcamp only) one year ago (April 2019) and you can forget everything you thought you knew!
Forget the first EP! it's a completely different show here: with 9 new songs, and 6 of them longer than 5 min, this is not garage punk anymore but a full menu of noisy and heavy rock, something between noise rock and some kind of psychedelic post-hardcore... the kind of rock'n roll which doesn't cruise drive nicely on the highway...
And the fact that this album is so hard to define is probably what makes it so interesting.
The drums are heavy, the guitars are switching between heavyness and total noisy crazyness while the singer shouts and screams despair and anger...where the FUCK have we landed?
Vangas reminds me a bit of the crazy swiss geniuses of YC-CY on this one, with a more punk attitude maybe...
Synth, chains, drum machine, metal sheetin... everything is a weapon in the war against silence and boredom that the band is leading... and the final battle takes place on Two Men Fucking (you can see the video above), the last assault of pure noise on our poor eardrums...
A bit less than a year after Facial Tissue, Vangas is back on tracks with a new 2-songs EP (as a 7" on Chunklet Industries, first Vangas physical release).
And I am amazed, once again, to note that the 4 guys are still in motion... of course we are still closer to the LP than to the first EP but not so close either: the bass lines are rounder, the vocals are wailing, the vibe is smoother (at least that's what they make you believe at first)... the 90s DC post-hardcore scene influence is getting stronger right?
But the Vangas guys got more than one trick in their little bag, and the smoothing is just a start before a furious scratching departure...
Yes chaos is never far, nothing is sure or secure and Vangas will make a point at teaching it to us till the very end...
picture by Leighton Hoey
You can listen to Vangas on Rien à Faire #10.
Rien à Faire is on FB
Forget the first EP! it's a completely different show here: with 9 new songs, and 6 of them longer than 5 min, this is not garage punk anymore but a full menu of noisy and heavy rock, something between noise rock and some kind of psychedelic post-hardcore... the kind of rock'n roll which doesn't cruise drive nicely on the highway...
And the fact that this album is so hard to define is probably what makes it so interesting.
The drums are heavy, the guitars are switching between heavyness and total noisy crazyness while the singer shouts and screams despair and anger...where the FUCK have we landed?
Vangas reminds me a bit of the crazy swiss geniuses of YC-CY on this one, with a more punk attitude maybe...
Synth, chains, drum machine, metal sheetin... everything is a weapon in the war against silence and boredom that the band is leading... and the final battle takes place on Two Men Fucking (you can see the video above), the last assault of pure noise on our poor eardrums...
A bit less than a year after Facial Tissue, Vangas is back on tracks with a new 2-songs EP (as a 7" on Chunklet Industries, first Vangas physical release).
And I am amazed, once again, to note that the 4 guys are still in motion... of course we are still closer to the LP than to the first EP but not so close either: the bass lines are rounder, the vocals are wailing, the vibe is smoother (at least that's what they make you believe at first)... the 90s DC post-hardcore scene influence is getting stronger right?
But the Vangas guys got more than one trick in their little bag, and the smoothing is just a start before a furious scratching departure...
Yes chaos is never far, nothing is sure or secure and Vangas will make a point at teaching it to us till the very end...
You can listen to Vangas on Rien à Faire #10.
Rien à Faire is on FB
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