CAN’T STOP TALKING – Hot Stepper
One of these nights, we’re going to get it right. One of these nights, the beat’s going to be perfect, the look will be perfect, and the lights will reflect off of those old walls of the club to create this perfect geometry that will make everything make sense.
Frankly, at the heart of it, that must be what everyone who goes out on a Friday night to experience live music and strange adventures hopes will happen. And, everyone who has will tell you that they came pretty close a few times.
Maybe it’s because when you’re in front of a stage with the lights and the sound pouring down on you, there’s simply nothing else that you can worry about. That’s quite a tremendous amount of power and responsability and CAN’T STOP TALKING know how to use it.
“Hot Stepper” is angry dance-punk music. It’s not a slow shimmy toward an ethereal world, but a big, old stomp. CAN’T STOP TALKING make the kind of music that hypnotises you, first, and then lets you know all of the details. “Hot Stepper” feels like the song that you wait the whole week to hear played in some sweaty bar, and the kind of sound that might just fix everything.
Mountainbike Death Tigers – DIY
I think we need new legislation when it comes to rock music performances, and I believe that we should work to get it approved across all semi-democratic (because that’s the best you’ll get) states of the world.
Let’s all agree that whatever a rock band or performer does during a show is fair game, legal, and that they can’t be prosecuted for it. Set themselves on fire? Sure! Ingest some strange Amazonian mushrooms and climb naked onto the roof of the venue? Absolutely!
The truth is that, after all, that’s what most of us look for in rock music to begin with. In a world that’s just as obsessed with knocking individuality right out of you as it always has been, bands like Mountainbike Death Tigers and their confidence are of the utmost collective value.
Yeah, “DIY” sounds like it was intended as a rebellious, slightly self-destructive song about finding dangerous, good times. But this is a protest punk-rock song as much as anything. Mountainbike Death Tigers know a good chorus when they hear one, but they also know that getting to choose what’s best for you requires a lot of stubbornness nowadays.
