Fried E/M is from Saint Louis, Missouri, has been around since 2016/2015 and has a strong relationship with Lumpy Records (from St Louis as well) which is managed by the singer of the weirdo punk hardcore act Lumpy And The Dumpers, who also is behind the drums in Fried E/M.
Fried E/M's first release is a 6-track 7" (out on Lumpy Records in 2017, digital in 2016) of some super snotty fast punk with some clear similarities with Lumpy and The Dumpers (with less weirdness though) or with the first Beta Boys Eps. I love the intro speech taken from a classic scene from The Network ("I'm a human being goddamnit!").
It's a good first EP of angry, dirty, classic and quite enjoyable american punk rock with great "Darbie Crash" snotty vocals.
Then nothing for a couple of years until this short late 2019 5min38s tour tape of great 80s american punk... the recipe of the 7" has been improved to its best and the main problem of this tape is that it's way too short!
And here is Fried E/M latest release and first full length, Modern World!
Released in february 2020 by Lumpy Records in the US and La Vida Es Un Mus in Europe, the band was supposed to tour europe to "celebrate" their first LP but, well... it was of course cancelled because of you-know-what!
With 11 songs (including 3 from their 2017 7"), all under the 2 minutes mark, Fried E/M is delivering some great, straight forward punk rock. It's slightly too slow to be hardcore but with vocals a bit à la Career Suicide and some obvious Regulations influences we are clearly in the part of snotty american punk which is edging with hardcore punk.
It took me several plays for the album to really grow on me, obviously these guys didn't plan to write a new chapter in the big book of punk music history but they deliver an honest, well mastered and highly enjoyable album with all the perfectly dosed ingredients of what made me enjoy this kind of punk rock...
And well... it's good enough sometimes... innit ?
You can listen to Fried E/M on Rien à Faire #11
Rien à faire is on FB
Then nothing for a couple of years until this short late 2019 5min38s tour tape of great 80s american punk... the recipe of the 7" has been improved to its best and the main problem of this tape is that it's way too short!
And here is Fried E/M latest release and first full length, Modern World!
Released in february 2020 by Lumpy Records in the US and La Vida Es Un Mus in Europe, the band was supposed to tour europe to "celebrate" their first LP but, well... it was of course cancelled because of you-know-what!
With 11 songs (including 3 from their 2017 7"), all under the 2 minutes mark, Fried E/M is delivering some great, straight forward punk rock. It's slightly too slow to be hardcore but with vocals a bit à la Career Suicide and some obvious Regulations influences we are clearly in the part of snotty american punk which is edging with hardcore punk.
It took me several plays for the album to really grow on me, obviously these guys didn't plan to write a new chapter in the big book of punk music history but they deliver an honest, well mastered and highly enjoyable album with all the perfectly dosed ingredients of what made me enjoy this kind of punk rock...
And well... it's good enough sometimes... innit ?
You can listen to Fried E/M on Rien à Faire #11
Rien à faire is on FB
