A short one today about this 7" from Sublevación, a new band from
Barcelona, Spain.
Released on
Discos Enfermos, this is the band's very first release and I unfortunately didn't find much information about these guys.
Based on the cover picture I would say that it features two members of
Irreal
(the singer and the drummer) but I may be wrong.
Anyway the comparison with Irreal is far from being irrelevant as
the two bands are swimming in the same pool, which happens to be the pool
where Spanish raw punk / d-beat bands frolic
happily in studded swimming suits. Similar yes but not the same anyway, yes the
drumming and guitar riffs are heavy, the vocals come from far away with a
lot of reverb (a bit like if the singer was locked in the cathedral
basement and was singing through the window well) and everybody's playing
quite fast but the low-fi recording gives a "demo" or "an obscure old
Spanish band tape unearthed from the posthumous mess of some old alcoholic punk
whose liver would have finally exploded" vibe.
Irreal has always
benefited from a more than decent recording quality, even on their very
first demo back in 2018, and to be honest this 7" from Sublevación sounds exactly like it was Irreal's first demo tape (before the "official" demo) with a "real" demo tape sound.
So it's a cool little 7" of good-but-not-surprising Spanish raw punk. I'm just a bit disappointed by the recording quality (except if it actually is a demo) and the maybe too much similarity with Irreal (what's the point of playing so similar stuff?).
Let's see what comes next...
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