Just a short one today about this tape released on Discontinuous Innovation in early October.
I could not find much information about Cheap Meat, with band
members scattered between Philadelphia and LA I was not expecting it to be their first release but I am not sure. I have found a couple of demos (one from 2015
and
one from 2017) from a band with the same name but it sounds really different (and is
quite bad to be honest) so it's hard to say.
You can also imagine how hard it is to find anything relevant on the big
messy World Wide Web with a name like that...
Anyway let's focus on
Let's Eat, the recent 4-track tape.
The first noticeable aspect of this release is undoubtedly its extremely ugly artwork. I mean in the long and
beautiful history of DIY music production there has been a lot of
competition (A LOT) but this one is definitely one of the worst I have
seen for some time and it's worth noticing.
This is being said it is not the (main?) reason for me to write about
it today. No because Cheap Meat's music got something quite
interesting.
Cheap Meat is a female fronted band which immediately made me
think of three bands : The Ex, The Slits and
P22.
I mean listen to Something At Bard... in the mid-tempo song
construction there is something of the band from Amsterdam, especially
from the last period (since Catch My Shoe), and it's far from
being a bad comparison (I love The Ex).
Ages got a The Slits' vibe in the vocals and the jumpy
mid-tempo construction (the bell!). A great song about the difficulty of
starting relationships or maybe just about terrible
relationships...
But the most obvious comparison is probably with P22, yes in Cheap Meat there is something from the resigned, slightly depressed, feeling
that pours out of the Los Angeles based band's songs... (and the artwork
is not their strong point either). You can feel it very strongly in
Pretty in The City and Face Me.
Face Me is an interesting song about online stalkers (that's
what it is about right?) or just about men fantasizing about women from
their social media, turning them into sexual objects (which is the same
in many cases).
In conclusion it's a quite interesting short release from a mysterious band.
Let's see what comes next!
N,J'Oi!
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