Sheffield four piece DANGERLUST make a welcome return to the pages of W&H with a debut split double A side single, sharing their wares with Nottingham threesome HINTERLAND.
Last year’s DANGERLUST demo drew comparisons to Elastica, The Breeders and The Pixies. No real change with this effort other than to say that ‘Touch My Ass’ also reminds me of Curve and is the kind of song that Garbage have spent their whole career trying to make and never come close to succeeding, lacking the crucial ability to marry excoriating rawness with effortless chrome cool.
The bass line sounds like it was recorded using equipment developed for mining the Marianas Trench, being capable of reaching depths no human could ever possibly reach. Interestingly, for this reviewer anyway, I’m also hearing pleasing echoes of the late great That Petrol Emotion in parts of the sonic landscape that DANGERLUST fashion.
Luckily HINTERLAND create something entirely different with ‘On And On’ and are more concerned with scraping our eardrums using a thrilling garage punk razor-edged rush. Easy to dismiss as inferior to its companion by virtue of the NOFX approach this uncut gem is overlooked at your peril. Whereas DANGERLUST’s noise ultimately flirts its way into your boudoir HINTERLAND are far more interested in a bit of rough and tumble in the back seat of your motor.
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The no thrills production takes me back to old Fall records, early Sonic Youth and that wall of noise Ride created on their first couple of EPs where it sounded like everyone was playing lead guitar through their instrument, even the drummer. This is a truly glorious racket, its immediacy and its urgency reminding you why music, like air and water, is so vital to life.
According to the DANGERLUST website this single is already sold out. Luckily they’re already off on tour with HINTERLAND so catch ‘em together while you can.
www.dangerlust.net
www.hinterlandrock.com
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