Glands

 

 

Glands is a new duo from Roma, Italy, composed of two very active members of the Italian scene: Banfio behind the drums and Johnny P behind almost everything else. 

They both play in Sect Mark (furious hardcore punk band whose next full length should be out on Iron Lung in the coming months); Johnny is also involved in Education (post-latest EP was recently released on Symphony Of Destruction) and in Arabian Tower and manages Hidden Hands records; Banfio, on top of recording many of the bands from the Roma punk scene, used to play in Taste The Floor and Rake-Off among others. I've seen that these two guys now play shows as Glands so I guess that a proper live line-up is set-up and now fully operational.

 

 But enough of the Glands members' resumes the object of my post today is more specifically their Crackhole Demo released at the end of October this year.

I don't know if the demo is digital only in Italy but Richter Scale has released a few tapes in the UK if you're interested.

Glands clearly profess to be part of a certain kind of very straight forward silly punk, made of light-hearted lyrics and catchy rhythms, whose main objective is to spread the good word of rock'n'roll in its most regressive teenage incarnation. And it works really well!

Glands tracks are catchy and fun, the vocals are upfront and snotty as hell, the choruses are made to be sung along to if you're not too wasted yet and the synth actually adds to the melody without polluting the whole thing (which is great). It makes me think of a less low-fi and less "trashy" version of what Lorenzo does in Dadar (to stay in Italy) or what Headlice does very well in Australia. Would that be what that stupid term of "egg punk" actually refers to?

So yes that's a good and entertaining demo and I'm sure that Glands is a lot of fun to catch live. I just regret that the vocals get a little over the top on the melodic side on tracks like Boring Shit and especially on the terrible Walk You Home which could have really been left aside.

N,J'Oi!

 

 

 

You can listen to Glands in Rien à Faire #29.

 

 

 

 

   

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