Fairytale is one of the latest band to emerge from today's
prolific raw punk / d-beat / crust New York scene. Featuring long time
noise addicts who've been seen making a hell of a ruckus in bands like
Subversive Rite,
Scalple,
Twisted Thing
(who recently released a new killer 7"),
Miedo,
Dilate,
Razorheads, the excellent
Pobreza Mental,
Human Blod,
Zero
and probably many more, Fairytale takes advantage of this solid
experience of musical mayhem to make its entrance in a big way.
Most of these bands are well beyond the limits of what I can appreciate
in terms of Metal influences (I hate metal, probably why I don't dig
Crust), but I do enjoy a nice and chilled raw punk / d-beat band from time
to time as long as they keep lame guitar solos away from my sensitive
eardrums...
Lulu (front-woman of
Twisted Thing) is the one who gives her voice to the violence of the band's
compositions here. NYC, female vocals, raw punk / crust... ok you're of
course thinking
Nausea, which would be the easy (and lazy) comparison, but first I don't like
Nausea, second the dual female/male vocals make it quite different
and third Nausea is a lot more influenced by Metal than
Fairytale...
No Fairytale is way closer to my sphere of interest with a super
powerful kind of fast and straight forward raw/d-beat punk. It sounds like
a demo, it sounds old-school, which is what your punk fetish brain is
looking for anyway, so... it sounds good!
The vocals are buried just deep enough in the deluge of fuzzy, but
abrasive, guitar riffs, the drums sound like a shitload of cymbals and the
bass just never stops galloping at full speed, always on the verge of
falling, just to better draw us into the intoxicating whirlwind created by
the warped energy of these three songs...
Ok it's very short but that's fine with me as I can only enjoy this kind
of stuff for a very short time anyway, so that's just the perfect length
to me.
Only two tracks on this late 2019 tour flexi, including one from the demo
(Mayday), both of them recorded in September 2019.
On top of the obvious Swedish and Finnish 80s d-beat / hardcore
influences, it makes me think a bit of what some
F-minus songs
could have sounded like if they would not have been so
overproduced.
Once again it's super fast, super raw, it's a bloody punch in the jaw
(damn what a punchline), in one word it's intense! 2:35 in total for two
songs, yes it's short but not excessively short, it's once again just
short (or long) enough!
Perfect for the last minutes in the elevator before the dive in the
mortiferous open-space office for a day as boring as I imagine
it.
Here we reach the real object of this article, the brand new 7" released
on
Desolate Records
from Minneapolis.
Within four tracks only (including Better Off Dead / Damaged which was on the demo), Fairytale delivers what is, in my opinion, their best material until now. The sound is perfectly balanced between classic d-beat and hardcore punk, which is exactly what I dig.
Within four tracks only (including Better Off Dead / Damaged which was on the demo), Fairytale delivers what is, in my opinion, their best material until now. The sound is perfectly balanced between classic d-beat and hardcore punk, which is exactly what I dig.
This EP sounds closer to the most furious female-fronted bands I'm into, I'm thinking of bands like C.H.E.W, Flower (also from NYC), Khiis or No Future.
And even despite a couple of weird (but dissonant enough to be accepted by my brain) guitar solos, I find all the tracks equally enjoyable in a "come get your fury shot" kind of way. ...
Fairytale reminds us bluntly that life is not one (fairy tale)... so make yourself a favour and jump in for a few minutes of chaos and anger!
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