Tvivler – Der er for få borgerlige i det her land
Similar artists: Unsane, Shellac, Daughters, Young Widow
Genre: Punk, Screamo / Post-Hardcore, Math Rock
There are people that spend their downtime putting complexly built miniature boats through bottles. One can only assume that the same people have many moments of wanting to scream out in rage. They’d have to. A dedication to building miniatures is sure cheaper than therapy. But, it takes a certain kind of individual to embrace this kind of holistic approach, one that involves such dedication and complexity. You look at those people and, besides being unable to ever look at a ship in a bottle the same way again, you do have to wonder what they would be able to come with if tasked to write music.
Well, maybe marrying the two interests would be a worthwhile experiment. After all, creating art, not punk-rock of course, is a lot, like the difficult calculations involved in the building of the aforementioned ships. Naturally, these kinds of math-wiz-kids are prone to make prog-inspired music that can sound a lot like Frank Zappa. But, there’s another element to consider. It’s the rage that we talked about earlier.
Tvivler’s Der er for få borgerlige i det her land shows us what angry, detail-oriented people can come up with when trying their hands at writing rock music. There’s tension to this, not least of all because the threatening sounding war drums are put so high in the mix. But, the direct, slightly repetitive riffs bring to mind an abstract expressionistic painting. This is music that was taken very seriously by the artists who created this. It’s one more good rock song put out into the world and a what might have been for miniature ships placed in bottles.
Loveseat Pete – Harry/New Song
Genre: Indie Rock, Alternative Rock
A working-class hero is something to be mostly because being truly working class and having to depend on a regular job as a means to survive might not be any way to live at all. Modernity has given a lot of people a tremendous amount of riches at affordable prices. But, it has also forced millions of them into tiny office spaces. Here, they are required to never do more than a few simple tasks. It’s just enough to make them useful, and too little to actually give them any real power.
The murmurs of quiet desperation from the working classes can be heard across subway stations in the morning, boozers in the evening, and sometimes blaring through the speakers of young musicians. The original punks may have talked about unemployment, Thatcherism and the 3-day workweek. But, arguably the place in which the Westernised part of the world is at the moment is just as bad.
Loveseat Pete’s Harry/New Song is a 2-in-1 bargain collection of songs that bubbles over with the same kind of working-class unrest. This is the sound of endless wondering, of love, found and lost, of discovery. But it’s all set to the beat of a 9 to 5 that can’t ever be truly forgotten by the young songwriter. There’s energy in this too, and it hasn’t yet turned into silent despair. One can only hope that Loveseat Pete keeps causing a raucous and finds a way out.
