MASKE is a new band from Berlin which, on top of having the name of the year, just released their first full length at the beginning of June.
A bit of history first with the 2-track demo released in May 2019.
Two (good) tracks that are included in the 2020 full length.
But let's come back to 2020...
Leere Blicke, the first song available on their bandcamp page, totally blew my mind and
my expectations were really high for the rest of the Tape...
and finally after some delays because of you-know-fucking-what... here it
is!
ok let's recap a bit first: MASKE is playing some great german punk
with a clear influence from the first waves of underground bands, at a time
when hardcore was stammering its first words in the language of
Slime and the art students of the Neue Deutsche Welle were not
working in the Advertisement Companies of their daddies yet.
In a nutshell any songs from
TAPE would not sound akwardly out of touch on
Soundtracks Zum Untergang (the first one), alongside early punk tunes from
Hass,
M.D Blitz
and other classic 80 bands from the not-too-rough side of
Aggressive Rockproduktionen.
To be honest I was expecting a really good but classic post-punk album,
instead I got a great mix of german rock/punk/post-punk with an 80s sound...
yes this thing is pretty diverse, looking a bit too much like a tribute
to the 80s sometimes...
Der Würstenkraut smells like Brian Setzer's favorite
brilliantine, Ecstasy is (I guess) more a classic rock ballad than a
punk song, Hardcore is (obviously) a tribute to the first "hardcore"
german bands and Schatten will make you smile if you speak french and
have heard of NTM (you have)...
I really like Virtual Reality which with a super classic punk song construction manages to give a blunt description of the digital power of multinational companies on our connected lives...
Keep your distance and enjoy MASKE!
You can listen to Maske on Rien à Faire #10
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