Denude
A Murmuration Of Capitalist Bees (Professional 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 Crimson 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. Most of the songs have lengthy intros with complicated time signatures, and the place the vocals, once they seem, are like a solo instrument, taking part in its half then dropping our once more. However this complexity and depth is rarely on the expense of making accessible, listenable, and offended songs.
Animal Tracks, for example, has a syncopated rhythm. The insistent, intricate guitar choosing is sort of a ticking time bomb. The drums are being hit arduous and rumble and clatter with the bass driving on the track, creating a picture of a mad horror chase by way of darkened woods. Half approach by way of the monitor the temper lifts a little bit, simply earlier than the vocals start, which sound nearly uplifting after the threatening lengthy musical introduction. A Flying V has a lighter musical begin with shifting rhythms and sophisticated tones, and the vocals, once they finally arrive, are unsettling. And on Single File Marching Orders, the vocals solely are available on the remaining third of the track, after a machine gun hearth guitar and shifting time modifications.
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 typically sound like a crazed preacher within the wilderness of a avenue nook the place yesterday’s newspapers swirl in an apocalyptic wind, the dangerous information forgotten or ignored as individuals swipe social media of playful cats and nom-nom meals. Equivalent to on opening monitor, Oh Pal 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 sophisticated 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 comprises eight tracks bristling with power, intrigue, rigidity, paranoia, and misery. There’s a militaristic tone to lots of the track 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. Submit punk meets math-rock.
Denude have created a stirring debut that hits arduous.
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