Smut: Split Tape with Moonscape

 

picture by Albert Licano

I've already written some nice words about SMUT a year and a half ago and it's time for a quick update!

The Los Angeles band just released a split tape with Moonscape (a metallic hardcore band from Japan I'm not going to talk about at all) on Silenzio Statico (which doesn't seem to have any up-to-date online account anywhere) and despite the briefness of the thing (three tracks only), it's well worth a little write-up!

 

 

 

  Featuring cool artwork made by one of the guy from the LA punk store Descontrol, the three tracks of this tape are just a perfect example of what hardcore punk can be.

Fuel is fast (but not crazy fast), straight forward, with very upfront drums and snotty vocals, doing a great job as an honest hardcore punk song. Thirst Trap is faster (but also heavier and slower at times) and therefore meaner but probably just as straight forward as Fuel, pulling no punches as Izzy spews his disgust and anger straight on your young yuppie smooth skin...

But the real hit is without a doubt Side Piece 2 which starts slowly with "airy" guitar riffs before turning into a heavy mash of slow hardcore (a bit like some early Nasti or Acrylics tracks), accelerating smoothly to end just before the so expected final explosion, leaving our poor brain frustrated and in desperate need... brilliant! A pure hardcore freak-punk song!  

 

Damn it was way too short but it made me want to dive again in their discography and while checking out youtube I found this cool live footage shot in LA:

 

 

  Cool Camera Silens t-shirt dude! 

I take the opportunity to remind everyone that I translated a French documentary (well, I made english subtitles) about Gilles Bertin, singer of Camera Silens, whose story is quite fascinating...

It's RIGHT HERE! 

 

 

 

 N,J'Oi!

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

   

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