Presagio is a young band hailing from Valencia, Spain, which
started in the middle of 2019 as a trio
with Maxi on drums, Bruno on guitar and Javi on bass
and lead vocals. The three Spaniards were soon joined by
Francesco who took over the bass so Javi could fully focus on
vocals. After Maxi left the country, Mikel (who also plays in
Mausoleo
and
Margartia Quebrada) replaced him behind the drums... the you-know-damn-what crisis
happened and the band was not able to rehearse or perform for months
(they've actually never played live at all!) before finally working on
their songs again during summer and stepping in recording studio in
December... to give birth to their first EP whose artwork by Ruben Badenes
is staring at you right now.
Out on
Polze de la Mort
(a DIY tape label from Benissa, Spain), Antes Era Divertido is
Presagio's debut release. Within four tracks the band delivers some
classic Spanish punk rock edging with post-punk which recalls some mid
tempo melodic 80s classics like the early
Paralysis Permanente
tracks, the early days of
PVP, the
Familia Real
7" and of course Eskorbuto (late 80s, early 90s era) as the band
is, after all, named after one of the Basque band song (actually covered
and included as a bonus track). More recently the comparison with the
least goth tracks of
Cadaver Em Transe
(in Portuguese though) or with
Peluqueria Canina
would not be totally ridiculous.
Dressed with rather discreet drums, catchy bass lines melodies and a
sometimes distorted, sometimes clear and melodic, guitar sound, the songs
leave a lot of room to Javi's vocals that oscillate between a protest
speech tone and a always energetic, but never unnecessarily aggressive,
kind of singing.
My Spanish is unfortunately quite limited but thanks to beautiful tools
provided by the developed modern world I can say a few things about the
lyrics: getting drunk gets boring at some point (Antes Era Divertido, It Used To Be Fun), war and death are scary as fuck (Somos, We
Are), the prospect of dying and being locked up for eternity in a coffin
is indeed a universal fear (Muerto, Dead) and
drug induced deliriums are actually not that cool (Todo Es Ficticio, All Is
Fictitious). I'm not able to judge the quality of the writing, but in any case the construction of the tracks is smooth and pleasant and the topics are pretty good, so that's cool!
Antes Era Divertido is a cool and refreshing short tape which manages to mix a lot of old school influences with a modern melodic sound, if you're into not-too-fast not-too-harsh Spanish punk you're at the right place buddy!
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