Just a few words today about this new band from Barcelona, Spain, which
released a great EP on bandcamp first mid-2020
but also on tape in south america thanks to
Educacion Cinica
and
then on vinyl thanks to
Discos Enfermos
from Barcelona early this year.
I guess the band's name comes from the concept of
Lumpenproletariat
(lumpen means rag in German) which, incidentally, then gave birth to a generic term to designate "scrounger, riff-raff, hoi polloi, white trash, bogan, or yobbo" and more generally a class of misfits in Spanish and other languages. The Lumpen was also the
name (for the same reasons probably) of the "The Black Panthers' official house band" which wrote a famous song praising the liberation of
Bobby Seale.
It is thus an inspiring word which has been taken up by several musical formations and the band I'm interested in today should not be mistaken with the
Italian Oi! band
or the
mexican metal band
of the same name.
So let's come back to our Rag...
I don't know much about the actual line-up except that the band features
mostly Colombian punks living in Barcelona and includes in
particular
Mateo Correal
who is known for his graphic work (especially covers' artwork like the
Impulso second EP's
and the Lumpen's one of course).
Despite being based in Catalonia, Lumpen's
Desesperación
7" got the raw side of Colombian punk bands... I've talked about
a few of them
here but I think
Reacción Violenta
is probably the closest to Lumpen (especially
their first EP). Let's not forget Muro of course which conquered the whole punk
world to their furious hardcore punk / D-beat during the couple of years
before the pandemic.
I'm also thinking of
Pobreza Mental
(from NYC but singing in Spanish) which got the same kind of speed and
rawness... anyway I could go a long way looking for influences, from 80s
scandinavian hardcore / D-beat to modern Spanish raw punk / D-beat bands
like
Totälickers
or
Irreal
through the old classics like
IV Reich...
But where D-beat usually bores me quite quickly, Lumpen manages to keep jumping around all along their five tracks... It's the linearity of the d-beat that tends to put me to sleep (that famous beat... I never could stand Discharge anyway), but the guys from Barcelona manage to inject something moving, lively, catchy into their songs and it works like a charm!
I hope it's not a one time thing and that I will hear more from Lumpen very soon!
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