Let's start bluntly: Sex Work is a new band from Berlin, Germany.
A new band made of four guys I can't really figure out but who, I assume, are full
of some kind of twisted humor that makes people pose like a lame 70s
classic rock band, choose a not so easy name to google at work and
deliver some top notch killer punk rock songs...
Because that's the whole point of all that aesthetic twist I guess... to distract us from the whole point, which is, bluntly, that Sex Work fucking rules...
Featuring a few veterans from the German independant music scene, in
particular the singer of a trash/fastcore band that people my age might
remember which, in addition to being inspired by a cult silly movie, played some
pretty cool stuff (Surf Nazis Must Die) and one of the guy behind
Big Nuff Studio (he's played in a few bands as well of course), Sex Work immediately asserts itself as a mature group that gives itself the means
to provide the quality of its passion (well THAT does sound like some
pompous rock review crap!).
Yes there is something deeply disturbing with this cover but let's move on.
The band recently released a tape featuring three "new" tracks on one
side and the two-track Nasal Spray EP (from summer 2020) on the
other side (yes tapes have two sides) which gives us a grand total of five
tracks so I'll consider it as one release.
And damn... those five tracks rip!
Far from the leather-and-studs scene or any stuck-in-an-era genre
(although I don't hold any grudge against these scenes and genres as you
do know!), the four Berliners deliver energetic, catchy, fast and
interesting songs that can only seduce the punk rock lover buried in your deep self, little
fella.
I mean it's not so easy to describe, the bass is tumbling down from the
cliffs with its heavy lines, the guitar brings some air and melodies from
time to time while the singer sounds pissed and desperate but never really
falls into hardcore-like screams or way-too-cheesy vocals, no it's just
perfectly balanced...
And the recording... the recording is GOOD! It sounds modern but with a
vintage touch that recalls the first wave of british "maintream" punk
bands and it's good for a change not to bathe in a pool of noise and fury
as I've tended to do for a while.
I can't really say that their songs are political, cynical or whatever
else but there is for example Dennis Rodman which takes the piss of
this has-been basketball player I know only for his weird friendship with
Kim Jong-un (and that's definitely enough information to write a couple of
good punk songs I guess). There are also
Ups & Downs in a Liftboys Life
and Nasal Spray which by their titles only will make your
understand the kind of lyrics you can expect, and that's perfectly fine
to me!
Sex Work is a great modern punk band, it got everything that makes
punk punk but also what makes modern modern (damn that's a silly sentence
but you know what I mean I hope). And there is another band I can think of
that made me the same impression lately, that's
Cool Jerks
(from England) which blew my mind last year. Both bands have the same
intelligent approach of a music that has always been more a medium of
expression than a particular musical style (even if it is not completely
true) where energy, passion and the desire to "make noise" remain the main
ingredients of this potion against boredom and conformism that has
intoxicated us all for decades (and for the best).
Don't avoid it, SEX WORK is THE WORK!
N,J'Oi!
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