Billed as the answer to mass culture’s obsession with plastic surgery and AD-based music, Baltimore-based noose are fresh from a local studio with their debut release, an e.p. titled: cui bono.
“In today’s musical mainstream, there’s this thought that everything you have to make has to be made out of love, or at the very best in terms of conflict, slight discontent. Well, that’s not us, we make music out of actual
, actual hatred. The practices that some of these bigger labels, FREEDOM, Studio60 etc...the practices that they use and the way that all of the artists sort of blend together, it really fucking dilutes the industry as a whole. We’re not looking for diversity within the music industry via race or anything like that, even though that would be great too. Rather, we’re looking for some kind of diversity within sound and ideas, everyone is writing the same shit in the same genre, with the same producers. It’s like cultural incest and all of our musical children have webbed feet.”
-- Louis Bassett
In promotion of the band releasing this EP on Friday, Culture Uncut is working in conjunction with them for a special new, First Cut program, in which it streams here before wide release.
personnel:Louis Bassett - bass guitar, vocals [this feeling is carnal]
James Black - guitar
Laura Paige - percussions, vocals [pound of flesh]
Emma Shields - mixing and mastering
tracklisting:Side A:
this feeling is carnal
Side B:
[pound of flesh]
linear notes:
“the recording of this e.p. was very serious to us at the time that it was happening because of the prevalence of media and images within media within the last few decades. we always had the type of attitude of creating out of anger, or real dislike of things, and this was an easy project to write for because the things we make music about are things we truly hate. we hate the squeaky clean image of pop-stars that are run out in front of us day after day.
the title, which translates to something akin to, ‘to whose benefit?’, is really meant to ask those that consume our music, who benefits from the pop-star machine and the media cycle? they might benefit from a firsthand look, but the way in which they are berated and boiled down into caricatures makes me say that in a sort of self-actualization way, they don’t exactly benefit directly from this. This is a criticism of that machine. This is a punk record.”
