It's a stranger that we don't know, and that maybe, driven by prejudice, inspires us some mistrust. It is, therefore, strange that we know something or little, distant, what we feel at a distance, and at the same time, many times, we also wake up to some intrigue.
And the truth is that the appearance of the album from this group became a bit strange to me. I did not know that in Getaria (Gipuzkoa) there was such a project and I took it with surprise, even with curiosity. These kinds of projects that collide with most of the offer, I'm interested and because of that, and because of the result, I immediately felt my closeness.
Even though the aesthetics of the disc, the photos, the songs, the words… do not want to convey a closeness and comfort of their own: from the darkness, the mystery and the sense of danger.
I have just discovered the album and I have learned that Aritz, Arih and Fer have gone ahead in various, noisy and confusing projects (Hell Division, Gremliny, Keep Diggin, Curasan…), but now – of course – they have chosen to put forces in simplicity and darkness without hints, returning to the bases. Also, in 2016, precipitously, on the eve of a tour of France, they recorded and joined several songs in the booth, not in any other format.
This album – therefore, the second one – has been released with the Paulinni Records, No Thanks, XCementerio X and Donnez Moi Dudf stamps (the latter French, the other from the Basque Country) and drinks willingly from various dark punk groups created in the 1980s in the United States: Like Wipers, but also from TSOL, Agent Orange and others. All songs are melodic and have the same speed, but they are almost always based on humble but penetrating riffs full of melancholy. Alternating Euskera and Castilian have written some very personal words, which have united punk, modest but elegant melody, the shade of darkness, bittersweet and heartburn, and speed at times.
They don't want to write hit! And there are no pieces intended to stand out for themselves – the tone and tempo are controlled – but I have enjoyed them especially with the songs of Lagun zaharra, Garai berri bat and Niños navaja.
Sawdust
Olaia Inziarte
Panda, 2024
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Fourteen songs written during the Depression. Olaia Inziarte presented it in the first late night in Basque that can’t be mentioned now. The bru-ta-la piece Sawdust opens the disc. A jazz... [+]
Alosia
Perlata
Autoproduction, 2024
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The Arrasate Perlata group has published a new work. He has several records behind him and his latest work is punk, Oi! And it was a documentary in tribute to the unrepeatable... [+]
Xabier Badiola
Gaztelupeko Hotsak, 2023
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Let's see. “Current music” is called music to anything that has a box of electronic rhythms, and, of course, you can’t. In these lines we have tried to show that the labels and... [+]
Nick Linbött
Nick Linbött
Kaset Productions, 2024
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With the vintage comic suit, the beginning of rock and roll and the experiences of the Cold War witnessed some of the generation characters who, with a ferocious... [+]
City of Dust
Salt Car
International Smoke, 2022
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Well, the fashion of quoting Gramsci is over, we can bring it to these lines without accusing of opportunism. Even more so if those of the Coke Salt bring it like this: "Old... [+]
Deus
Kaskezur
Usopop, 2024
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We have nothing to lose,” the baztandarras say. And that's right. They have always made music to enjoy, play and play among four musicians who have been growing up. Since the group was... [+]
Maniaks
Knives
Self-production, 2024
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It is common to create music groups in the circle of youth, and in Arrasate even more. But keeping a team in shape requires a lot of effort and commitment, and if you don't throw away, time... [+]
The devil with the swords!
Tatxers
International Smoke, 2024
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Sticky pop melody guerrillas. Like little Vietcong, one after the other, the Tatxers catch us again with traps or no traps. This is a new album that the hymenical master,... [+]
The Wonderland Kinky
boys
Self-production, 2024
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The trio created in Bilbao has little meaning in the name. Moreover, the participants’ journeys have been developed and modified. Marga Alday is known for being one of the... [+]
Agur Eta Omene X Alla va La Fired
Chill Mafia
2024
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Chill Mafia has been buried in the era opened by the Mafia Chill. That not everything has to last forever is something that is clearer than everything. And that now is... [+]
Ash Sprouting
Añube
Self-Production, 2024
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I've been thinking a lot about Debagoiena for a long time, young people almost only in urban music or, oh! They hear music, one or the other; that apart from that, there are not... [+]
Tuka is called
Autoproduction
Tu-K, 2024
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Electronic music has reached the Basque Country!”, you can read in recent years in headlines here and there. Journalists have delivery dates before it's time to think, and of course,... [+]
Every action has reaction
BLACK BACON
Artza Records/American Leather Records
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For over 25 years, Alex Montiel, founder of the pioneering hardcore band HHH, came to live in Euskal Herria. Here, from scratch, he... [+]
Punk. Punk is back, or, rather, has never gone. Those from Zikine come from Lekitxo (and not from Lekeitio), with the elegant Bala Galdua Zure Buru Galduan who have recently published with Pentecost.
Philosophy “Eixu Zeuk”. That is the basis and the goal. “Take the... [+]