I would have loved to make this one longer but it'll be unfortunately
rather short, indeed Fugitive Bubble has surprisingly managed to
keep a very low online profile in an age where your landlord's sex tape
can be found with just a few clicks (and believe me I've become very good
at online band stalking, I've also probably seen your neighbour's night performances).
Anyway these guys come from Olympia, Washington, but the vocals of their
first release were recorded in New York so I could make a wild guess and
assume that the singer is from there (which doesn't tell me much more
about who these guys are but, hey that's all I have).
Released on
Stucco Label, which has put out some killer releases like
Suck Lords, the first
Electric Chair, and even
Table Sugar in another genre (I love it though), before building a more marked low-fi
label aesthetic with its "cassette sub-label" Impotent Foetus,
which has more recently delighted my slowed and tired brain with
Youth Regiment
and
Septic Yanks, this 6-track tape from late 2020 is Fugitive Bubble's debut
release, and it's well worth a listen.
Fugitive Bubble got this kind of low-fi sound which goes along
very well with the label standards and yet the band's approach is far less
hardcore punk than its pals'.
It's quite fast but not really hardcore-fast though, it's just pure super
enjoyable female-fronted punk! It will recall the old classics from both
side of the Atlantic, Vice Squad but also the Avengers a
little bit but sometimes some slightly rawer vibes on the vocals (Contemporary Restoration) also make me think of
The Loudmouths
or of some more oi!-oriented bands like
Man's Ruin.
It would actually be stupid to stick only one label on these guys' heads,
Fugitive Bubble manages to explore different sides of, mostly, late
70s and early 80s punk (Silver Spoon even has a cool
The Slits' vibe) and even early 90s (Anymore got a little
Bikini Kill something right ?) making this 6-track tape a super
cool that deserves to be released on vinyl very soon!
May 2021: the mysterious Olympia based band is back with a new tape titled
No Outside on
Stucco Label / Impotent Foetus.
Like the 2020 tape it starts with a short and fast track (School Zone) that confirms that Fugitive Bubble has not abandoned the late 70s influenced... Indeed it does recall the L.A female-fronted early punk scene (The Avengers, The Bags, X etc...), yes overall it's a bit more melodic, a bit more complex in the construction of the songs, a bit less fast and the female voice is still very much in the foreground like in many bands of this period.
More recently it makes me think of the Debbie Downers, Patsy or Warm Bodies (in a less completely weird way of course).
Fugitive Bubble's ambition is not to create something revolutionary, arty or pompously avant-garde, but rather to follow in the footsteps of quality bands that have carried a certain version of punk rock for the last four decades, and that's actually pretty cool!
Now we just have to get the real thing on vinyl!
Now we just have to get the real thing on vinyl!
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