Bang!, very aptly titled, is a total attack on the senses, an immense sound, ragged and desperate. It explodes from the first moments of \u2018Soy Beans\u2019 with it\u2019s searing, howling guitar effects and never lets up for 35 glorious, riotous minutes. It’s the Milan based bands 5th full length album and the 4th on Fuzz Club records, their natural home (for the sake of completion there is also a Fuzz Club Sessions release).<\/p>\n
So what does it sound like? Punk rock. Psych punk. Hardcore psych. Post punk. All of those. Check out the swampy bass and scathing guitar of ‘Fight’ or the militant title track for a fiery jolt to the brain. It\u2019s an exorcism, a purge, with rousing choruses and an ecstatic buzz, deranged but life affirming. But its not \u2018just\u2019 punk, its not \u2018just\u2019 anything; The Gluts<\/a> don\u2019t do average and they can create wide open expanses of space and crackling energy in 4 minutes of punk rock revolution, gleefully murdering song structure and changing tempo at will.<\/p>\n There are subtler touches though in the blizzard of sound – when they slow it down (a bit) it can sound like space imploding and reality cracking. \u2018Vampire, A Walk At Midnight\u2019 is The Gluts in giallo cinema mode, it starts at a menacing pace with a looping monstrous bass and lots of reverb but half way through they can\u2019t help themselves and let it all go and the track verges on the edge of disintegration. \u2018Marble Cats\u2019 also has a gothic feel, glacial and throbbing to start with, beautifully seductive, before exploding into a barrage of noise; a mind melting psych burn out.<\/p>\n The album includes \u2018Cade Gui?\u2019 – the first song they\u2019ve sung in Italian (video below) – a thumping street punk track and like all of this record destined to be a hectic live experience that I can\u2019t wait to see!<\/p>\n