Cheap Meat

 

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! 

 

 

You can listen to Cheap Meat in Rien à Faire #16.

 

 

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