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AcidKmash
You guys know Mudhoney's first EP
Superfuzz Bigmuff, named after the band's two
favourite guitar effects
pedals which give this very peculiar dirty fuzzy sound, right ?
Well the Futurat guys, from St Petersburg, Russia, could have actually use that title as their band name!
Because it's a proper OD of super fuzz guitar sound that they plan to
make us have!
I did not find much information about these young lads, they probably
have connections with
DP
(weird instrumental low-fi synth punk) and
Zür Tü
(fuzzy instrumental noise rock, a drummer side-project), two other
St Petersburg
bands which are also internationally oriented enough to write in
english, but that's all I know.
Reality Emulation was released as a 8-track cassette on the Australian label Slime Street Records in march 2019.
Starting with Entrance Fuzz (and ending with Gone Fuzz)
Futurat are not hiding their hands... it's gonna be slow,
heavy and extremely fuzzy all the way!
Taking us back to the early days of grunge when Seattle and the
world was putting heaviness back on the map, incorporating
Black Sabbath and the heavy rock of the 70s in a modern
punk perspective, Futurat pushes the idea to the limit and
wraps us in a thick layer of buzzing molasses.
Soundgarden, Green River, and Mudhoney of
course... these names immediately come to mind while going through
the more than 4 minutes long tracks of the Russian band. But even
these classics are far from the level of fuzziness under which the
Futurat vocals are buried.
Yes I know we're quite far from the usual short and intense
hardcore punk stuff I usually promote here, but you guys need
some change sometimes as I much as I do..
There is honestly something intensely bewitching, mesmerizing, to
let the thick but soft bass frequencies lull you into a slightly
intoxicating drunkenness.
To be honest it can sound like it's too much at first and yet, in the end I was
quite surprised to see myself enjoy the whole thing way more than
I thought.
The perfect tape for a long subway journey or a Sunday afternoon
of tidying up !
This new tape called Incinerat was released by Under Heat Record (another aussie record label) a few weeks ago.
On the contrary of their previous release, these six new tracks
have all Russian titles and Russian lyrics, which makes more sense
in my opinion.
But it's far from being the only difference, the tracks are also
shorter and give off an energy that is incomparable with what I've
heard so far from Futurat.
The trio has worked on the drums sound and the overall mix of
the instruments which is now a bit more balanced (the guitar is
still super fuzzy and all over the place of course) in a way that
the energy of each of them is better oriented to the
front...
Ok it starts a bit softly with the first tracks (which I would
not have put at the beginning) but as soon as we reach the very
Bleach-era-Nirvana-influenced
cпонтанное событие
(spontannoe sobytie) it's clear that everything before was just appetizer.
But to me the best really comes at the end with во сне (vo sne) and ртуть (rtut') that propel us directly into another dimension made up solely of free energy and low-frequency riots.
To be quite frank it took me several listenings to really digest the heaviness and the thickness of the sound that Futurat force-feeds us deep in the gullet.
But like a good old foie gras, it's worth it!
I nevertheless believe that the band is capable of going one (or more) notch higher in its fuzz and tinnitus pastry. And I'm all curious to taste the next batch...
I nevertheless believe that the band is capable of going one (or more) notch higher in its fuzz and tinnitus pastry. And I'm all curious to taste the next batch...
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You can listen to Futurat in Rien à Faire #19.
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