mardi 21 juillet 2020

CLAMM




Clamm is a young band from Melbourne, Australia, which probably started early 2019 or late 2018.
Sorry the pictures above is actually with the old line-up, Luke the bassist has been replaced by Maisie since then (but I thought the picture was cool).
Featuring members of Gamjee And Dragons and The Belair Lip Bombs, the trio is playing an energetic kind of punk, a lot meaner than you would think when you listen to their other bands.

Since the end of last year, the Aussies have dropped a few singles including Dog which obsessive melody is quite catchy. That's when the world discovered that on top of writing good songs these guys really love animals (like everybody in the australian punk scene these days I guess).


cool artwork with The Walrus and Carpenter

But what is really interesting is the release of their first full length, Beseech Me (Self-released), early this year.
With 10 tracks of super catchy punk rock, rolling bass lines and sharp guitar riffs, Clamm is writing another beautiful page in the big book of Aussie punk history. Of course we are not talking street punk, oi! or hardcore here, but what I would call modern punk: Politically conscious,catchy but not clichés.
As Weirdo Wasteland wrote it better than me: "CLAMM takes a stand against violence (“If they wanna fight, give them the flower power” – ‘Sucker Punch’), the extent people will lie and cheat to be a winner (‘Liar’), and being generally baffled by the state of the country – politically and socially (“I’m confused about, well almost everything” – ‘Confused’)."

Clamm manages to maintain high tension all along the album, no repetition or boring plans here, it's all straight forward and easy to enjoy but not simplistic either (check out the noisy Confused guys)... they even manage to beautifully conclude with the 4:41 long Bossman which bass line and noisy roller coaster of sadness and anger will make you confidently nod a "sure a good album, mate!".


Highly recommended!

N,J'Oi!


You can listen to CLAMM on Rien à Faire #12.




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