HOLY POPES – DBT
Similar artists: Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, IDLES, Queens Of The Stone Age
Genre: Post-Punk, Rockabilly, Garage Rock
Right at this moment, there are folks diligently working at their desk jobs and looking to estimate how angry the population is likely to get over the following year. Angry enough to cause a riot? Angry enough to start a revolution? Once they find a suitable figure, they’ll also be able to approximate just much stress the population can endure. That’s very valuable information indeed.
The fact is that everyone gets a little angry. It doesn’t even take any exceptional circumstances for it. The question is how much one is willing to suppress. Doing away with these feelings entirely won’t help. Not for long. Eventually, those will come to the surface, usually in a nasty way. That’s one of the reasons why football hooligans are allowed to break each other’s skulls, why people take to screaming from a mountaintop, or why some opt to listen to hard-driving rock n’ roll.
HOLY POPES’s DBT is a song built on a very steady foundation of post-punk bass lines and garage-rock energy. But there’s anger at the heart of it. Danceable anger. A low-key manic fit that will feel natural for most people. Play it to your next-door neighbor or your auntie, and they’ll probably bob their head around to the rhythm. They know where this anger comes from. And, hopefully, they know that it doesn’t pay to let it all leave you before you’ve had a chance to use it.
Bi-Product – Corporate Snob
Similar artists: L7, Bikini Kill, Dicklord, Amyl and the Sniffers
Corporate workers dream about ditching the comfort of their office for the unpredictability of a stage. I’m telling you that it’s a dream that all blue-collar workers have. Take any silly comedy about parents working 9-to-5 to feed their family, and at some point, they’ll focus on a plot about one of them deciding to play guitar for a living.
But, the truth is that artists also entertain the idea of a corporate job. How could they not? Rock musicians, for example, shackle themselves voluntarily to a life of non-stop traveling, bad food, and, usually, little pay for their efforts. Sure, they’re free. But, they’re also at risk all of the time.
Bi-Product cheekily and angrily takes apart the fantasy of living off a significant, dependable income on Corporate Snob. Yes, it’s a punk tune reminiscent of the Riot Grrl era. Just like the band’s heroes, there’s humor and ire in this performance and a fair deal of food for thought for the punks down in the pit after hearing this one.
