Denude
A Murmuration Of Capitalist Bees (Skilled Work Information/Dipterid Information)
Vinyl | DL
Launched: 10 January, 2025
Bringing collectively a shared historical past of musical chops within the American Midwest, Denude launch their debut album: A Murmuration of Capitalist Bees
A Murmuration Of Capitalist Bees is the debut album of Illinois-Wisconsin math-rock band Denude. The band are a trio of members whose musical historical past and expertise goes again a long time: James David (Homicide within the Purple Barn, Fuiguirnet), Jesse Schomisch (Fuiguirnet), and Matthew Parrish (Piglet, Dr Manhattan). They’ve all earned their rep within the DIY music scene of the US Midwest.
Denude means to make one thing empty or naked – which is the exact opposite of the music on this report which is wealthy with texture, ardour and rhythm. Lots of the songs have lengthy intros with complicated time signatures, and the place the vocals, after they seem, are like a solo instrument, taking part in its half then dropping our once more. However this complexity and depth isn’t on the expense of making accessible, listenable, and offended songs.
Animal Tracks, as an example, has a syncopated rhythm. The insistent, intricate guitar selecting is sort of a ticking time bomb. The drums are being hit laborious and rumble and clatter with the bass driving on the music, creating a picture of a mad horror chase by means of darkened woods. Half manner by means of the observe the temper lifts somewhat, simply earlier than the vocals start, which sound virtually uplifting after the threatening lengthy musical introduction. A Flying V has a lighter musical begin with shifting rhythms and complicated tones, and the vocals, after they ultimately arrive, are unsettling. And on Single File Marching Orders, the vocals solely are available on the remaining third of the music, after a machine gun hearth guitar and shifting time adjustments.
Phalanx is the albums most out and out punk tune, with its wall of sound and manic preacher vocals – I learn it as an assault on Trump: I get mistaken for a salesman/Folks inform me I’m a godsend. The vocals usually sound like a crazed preacher within the wilderness of a avenue nook the place yesterday’s newspapers swirl in an apocalyptic wind, the unhealthy information forgotten or ignored as individuals swipe social media of playful cats and nom-nom meals. Equivalent to on opening observe, Oh Good friend Entropy, the place the vocals are hammered out like a preacher of doom, over the heavy relentless beat. The drums are complicated, just like the difficult mind alerts of the ranting singer. We should make a buddy of entropy. On the twelfth Battle On The Isonzo, an unsettling quantity, the vocals convey the despair and confusion of the ludicrousness of recent life.
Ypre is equally sinister, with edgy, wired meanderings and, while All Fours begins with jangly alt-guitar, the vocals are unhinged, and the music will get darker and heavier. The bass growls like a bouncing bomb, while the guitar skitters and jaggers about.
A Murmuration Of Capital Bees incorporates eight tracks bristling with power, intrigue, rigidity, paranoia, and misery. There’s a militaristic tone to lots of the music titles, simply as there’s a self-discipline within the taking part in, regardless that the recordings are tough and prepared. There are traces of Pere Ubu and Mark E. Smith. Publish punk meets math-rock.
Denude have created a stirring debut that hits laborious.
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