Humanzi - Tremors
(Universal)
This is a big, loud, aggressive and frankly, marvellous album, bear
with me whilst I explain more. Firstly, whilst the proliferation of
disco beats in modern music is an issue that concerns me so much I pretty
much vowed to strangle the next band I heard using them, Humanzi are
let off this, they don't use them that much and to great affect. Humnazi's
musical motives are similar to my own, and thus I instantly empathise
with them, a band pissed off with the world and the idiots in it, making
a stand and not giving a shit, the lyrics aren't that clear but what
is audible sounds great, lines to be shouted out by a massive crowd
sweatily dancing to the driving beats. So to the music, well, a big
old mish-mash to be honest, a kind of Punk, New Wave, New Romantic,
electronica mix-up, perhaps the closest reference point is Faith No
More, but brought bang up to date, driving, grinding guitars, big swooping
synths, thundering bass lines and a solid drummer pounding his way through
the lot of it. Tremors is eleven tracks of refreshing brilliance, not
one track of filler, not one wasted second, knocks the socks off anything
released in recent months.
www.humanzi.com
Chris Chinchilla
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