If you're not new here you may have read my enthusiastic words about Kaleidoscope at the end of last year.
And as you have not, here is a chance to check the
Decolonization
7", their latest release.
Back on D4MT LABS
after
After the Future
(their beautiful 2019 LP released on La Vida Es Un Mus and Toxic State), Kaleidoscope is once again jumping
straight in the political side of punk with this 5-track 7".
Yes that's what modern anarcho-punk is: tensed, highly political and
not-so-clichés from the musical side...
Some would call it hardcore punk, I don't think it's so accurate.
Kaleidoscope got its own sound, its own vibe, and that's what
important bands have the power to create I guess, a new dimension
in the music reality.
The band from NYC has, since the beginning, managed to translate the
most tensed and harmful mental states into music... To me these songs
are the soundtrack of the fifth burnout
of a small time office worker, the playlist of a heart broken lover's
panic attack, the internal lullaby of agoraphobic 5-year old kid lost in
Grand Central on a Monday morning, the mental break down's melody of a violent midlife crisis...
Yes Kaleidoscope is all that and even more and they prove it on
Girmitya, a beautiful "ballad" about the Indians labourers
sent to the
Fiji, Mauritius, South Africa, and the Caribbean by the British authorities to work on
sugarcane plantations during the time of the colonies.
Jumping on the throats of empires and all kind of exploitation
systems, Kaleidoscope has a lot to say, a lot to denounce... I am not 100% behind the "new" decolonization movement the US and the UK have seen popped up over the last couple of years, but I get the point.
Kaleidoscope is a great band, an important band of our times.
And I hope it will keep proving it to us.
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