Impotentie is a 2-piece band from Montreal, Canada and has been
around since 2017 or something.
These two guys are definitely not newbies in the punk business,
Matt played in
Thee Nodes
and the great
No Negatives before joining Kevin aka Spoiler in this soft "wood"
project.
So Spoiler is originally from the Flemish part of Belgium and
started his punk career by the SxE side with
Justice (from Belgium) which had quite a success in the Youth Crew scene
at the time (but never convinced me). Since he moved to Montreal he has
been spotted in several angry musical acts as
Sanction A, Omegas,
Proxy
and
Stigmatism
(a duo as well, a bit obsessed by Vinnie as weird as it can
sound)... and is on the way to become a
living encyclopedia of early NYHC.
So yes Impotentie's lyrics are in flemish and, obviously,
Spoiler is the one singing them...
The duo first release is the
Demonstratieve Opnamens cassette (Swollen City Records) which then became a
7" on Drunken Sailor. This 6-track demo is an interesting mix of early french or italian oi!
with a lot of guitar fuzz ... Sounds weird but I can imagine the guys from
Rough
or
Basta
jamming with Reich Orgasm in Antwerp while trying to sound
like Mudhoney...
A nice EP but easy on the fuzz guys...
Leopold II is niet Dood Genoeg, the band first LP (out on
Roachleg Records), is a political charge against the "leftovers" of the belgian colonial
system implemented under Leopold II reign. I don't understand Flemish but
they made it quite clear and the
Leopold II
ballad is obviously about it. It's interesting to see how these songs
written a few months before George Floyd death perfectly fit with
the debate about systemic racism and colonialism past which erupted
afterwards.
On the musical side the two hardcore veterans have softened their
Fuzz obsession and hardened their oi! influences...
Let's be clear it's almost an oi! album, the kind which is not made by
Skinheads but by punk/hardcore enthusiasts who take the best of it and leave all the usual and tiring clichés at the door.
The bouncy bass lines, the melodic but sad guitar lines and even a few gang vocals... in these 6 songs (without the intro and the ballad) there is everything you can expect from a classic but good oi! band from the heavy guitar side.
To be honest it took a few listens for the album to grow on me but I really enjoy it now... a lot more than the demo.
N,J'Oi!
You can listen to Impotentie in Rien à Faire #12
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