Onwards and upwards!
Today we jubilantly release Kaputt’s ‘Movement Now’ / ‘Another War Talk’ EP. The Scottish six-piece have always dazzled us, zipping up their songs with a dizzy vim, lyrical punch and their own particular fidgety finesse but on this record they sound nigh thunderous. Framed by demands for much-needed change both tracks on this new record topple you headfirst into their serpentine tumult of sound.
Ever racing away from the playful torn edge of no-wave song, Kaputt blurt out tracks with twitchy charisma. Their catchy riffs circle with relish, allowing timely sax stonks and stop-start rhythms to drive things on. Vocals unfurl, guitars bluster and always the saxophone snakes, hypnotically drawn through the erratic beat. There's a riot of fun at play in their febrile racket, but there's also some deeply cerebral grooves and choice lyrical concerns evident too.
‘Movement Now’ / ‘Another War Talk’ takes up its rightful place, front and centre of all the best record shops, as of today. It is available to stream through all usual channels, whilst the brightly spinning blue 7” can also be sourced from own webshop here: https://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/
Continue reading for lots more context on this earth shake of a new 7”, enjoy!
Kaputt are a twitchy post-punk act from Glasgow. Numbering six, Kaputt feature Cal Donnelly on guitar and vocals, Curtis Halling on guitar, whilst Chrissy Barnacle also sings and plays saxophone. Tobias Carmichael is responsible for bass, whilst Rikki Will and Emma Smith cover drums and percussion respectively.
Kaputt aren’t strangers to directing their explosive energy and maximalist vibrancy in name of allegory and critique. Their 2019 debut album on Upset The Rhythm, ‘Carnage Hall’, confidently deconstructed themes of surveillance, paranoia, and cultural identity through a sonic lens of high-tempo, bright, danceable pop hooks and technical, polyphonic rhythms which border on the bombast of Zeuhl.
New EP ‘Movement Now’ / ‘Another War Talk’ continues the synthesis of animation and discontent with an ethos that exemplifies post-punk’s most original and guiding purpose: casting aside the rigid, signifying fashions of modern performative genre tropes and instead combining a vast fluidity of influence, tone and style to create something as unique and personal as it is counter-cultural. The result is a release that responds to the apathy of our current situation with a positive thesis, breathing life into the lived-in, bursting through every vessel, leaving nothing unturned.
‘Movement Now’ enters with the distinct high-low drive of guitar whines and racing low toms, emblematic of the presence one feels when pushing past bodies in a heaving DIY venue, but it is not afraid to play with expectations. When the song thematically opens out, disrupts convention and progressively rebuilds upon itself, the track, a comment on the ever-lagging pace that jaded, old values take to transform, transitions from a goth aesthetic to the optimism characteristic of any indie heavyweight.
‘Another War Talk’ shines in production and composition as arguable one of the best examples of distilling the band’s manic live energy into a studio recording. The divergent vocal duality of Cal D. and Chrissy B. accompanied by competing percussionists and dynamic saxophone lines encapsulates the performative strengths that has allowed the band to become a constant highlight in Glasgow’s ever exciting DIY scene. It is, in essence, the naturalness by which six passionate voices can combine into one vision so seamlessly, which one who has not experienced the band live should take away from the track for now in anticipation of the future.
‘Movement Now/Another War Talk’ is out now, as a limited edition transparent blue vinyl 7” and also digitally through Upset The Rhythm.
Thanks for spending this time with us and as ever for your ongoing support, it really means everything!
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FUZZ
(Charles Moothart, Ty Segall, Chad Ubovich)
Wednesday 31 March (postponed – new 2022 date TBA)
Electric Ballroom
184 Camden High St, Camden Town, London, NW1 8QP
7pm | £17.50 | https://link.dice.fm/mhxLeUrBL4
(This show is rescheduled from July 22nd 2020, original tickets valid, refunds available too)
JAKE XERXES FUSSELL
Wednesday 1 September
OSLO Hackney, 1A Amhurst Rd, Hackney Central, London, E8 1LL
7.30pm | £9 | https://link.dice.fm/fUuBdCfJD3
(This show is rescheduled from May 12th and Sep 8th 2020 & May 7th 2021, original tickets valid, refunds available too)
PAN AMERICAN
Tuesday 9 November
Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL
7.30pm | £10 | https://link.dice.fm/ffafb77V81
(This show is rescheduled from April 21st and Aug 10th 2020 & Feb 17th 2021, original tickets valid, refunds available too, awaiting postponement)
BRIGID MAE POWER (full band)
Tuesday 23 November
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, London, N1 9JB
£10 | 7.30pm | https://link.dice.fm/RtH8QH5df4
(This show is rescheduled from June 10th and Sept 15th 2020 & April 22nd 2021, original tickets valid, refunds available too)
SHOPPING
Monday 14 February 2022
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £10 | https://link.dice.fm/43JnT6NN71
(This show is rescheduled from May 5th and Sep 2nd 2020 & May 5th 2021, original tickets valid, refunds available too)
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