(You can stream the album on soundcloud while you read)
If I had had to think of the one draw back to punk it would
be that listening to it anywhere, but live is lacking, lacking the energy,
spontaneity, organic nature, just plane lacking. This is certainly not to say that I don’t love listening to
a good “balls to the wall” punk album, but for anyone who has got to experience
a band like Googol Bordello or Sonic Youth first hand and then gone back to the
album you can’t help but feel like they just put a box around the band, and put
that on the record. You can’t do
that in punk. Punk is the stage,
the audience, the venue, the walls, the dizziness from bobbing your head, the
crap on the floor, the wires, the feeling of weightlessness, the feedback,
sweat…other stuff. You get the
idea. Metz managed to package
every one of those things in their album, and it took them about 5 years to do
it.
Metz
is a three-piece noise punk trio from Toronto. Having formed in 2007, and not putting out an album until
now certainly says something. You
can fit a lot of practice into 5 years.
The
idea of “honing your craft” when it comes to punk rock is pretty antipunk in
some ways. However, listen to the
first buzzing sound off of “headache” and you realize that everything is done
to a T. It’s perfectly mixed to
sound raw, cleaned up to sound unrehearsed, like imperfection bottled up in
perfection. The best artists can
walk this line of being really good at just wailing on your instruments with
the restraint of a 5 year old.
“That’s just noise” says someone just writing it off, but look at it
really. It has crescendos, melody,
and all that other good stuff.
It’s just a different medium.
I don’t know much more I could say about
this album that can’t really be said better by the music. The whole album is available for
streaming on their soundcloud.
Also check them out on bandcamp and facebook.
You can also check us out on facebook if you’d like. We’re always posting stuff and things.
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