{"title":"Kaputt","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"movement-now-another-war-talk","title":"Movement Now \/ Another War Talk","description":"\u003cp\u003eGlasgow post-punk six-piece Kaputt aren’t strangers to directing their explosive energy and maximalist vibrancy in the name of allegory and critique. Their 2019 debut album on Upset the Rhythm \u003ci\u003eCarnage Hall\u003c\/i\u003e confidently deconstructed themes of surveillance, paranoia, and cultural identity through a sonic lens of high-tempo, bright, danceable pop hooks and technical, polyphonic rhythms which border on the bombast of Zeuhl. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew EP \u003ci\u003eMovement Now \/ Another War Talk\u003c\/i\u003e continues the synthesis of animation and discontent with an ethos that exemplifies post-punk’s most original and guiding purpose: casting aside the rigid, signifying fashions of modern performative genre tropes and instead combining a vast fluidity of influence, tone and style to create something as unique and personal as it is counter-cultural. The result is a release that responds to the apathy of our current situation with a positive thesis, breathing life into the lived-in, bursting through every vessel, leaving nothing unturned.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMovement Now\u003c\/i\u003e enters with the distinct high-low drive of guitar whines and racing low toms, emblematic of the presence one feels when pushing past bodies in a heaving DIY venue, but it is not afraid to play with expectations. When the song thematically opens out, disrupts convention and progressively rebuilds upon itself, the track, a comment on the ever-lagging pace that jaded, old values take to transform, transitions from a goth aesthetic to the optimism characteristic of any indie heavyweight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnother War Talk\u003c\/i\u003e shines in production and composition as arguably one of the best examples of distilling the band’s manic live energy into a studio recording. The divergent vocal duality of Cal D. and Chrissy B. accompanied by competing percussionists and dynamic saxophone lines encapsulates the performative strengths that has allowed the band to become a constant highlight in Glasgow’s ever exciting DIY scene. It is, in essence, the naturalness by which six passionate voices can combine into one vision so seamlessly, which one who has not experienced the band live should take away from the track for now in anticipation of the future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Upset The Rhythm","offers":[{"title":"Blue | 7\"","offer_id":50417238180171,"sku":"1116310","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/52e67fb7-dc4f-4158-b328-aff67f1660cb_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726723039"},{"product_id":"carnage-hall","title":"Carnage Hall","description":"\u003cp\u003eKaputt are a recently hatched post punk act from Glasgow, Scotland. Racing away from the playful torn edge of no-wave song, Kaputt blurt out tracks with twitchy charisma, their catchy riffs circle with relish, allowing timely sax stonks and stop-start rhythms to drive things on. Vocals leap, guitars bluster and always the saxophone snakes, hypnotically drawn through the erratic beat. There’s a riot of fun at play in their febrile racket, but there’s also some deeply cerebral grooves and choice lyrical concerns evident too.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe songs on \u003ci\u003eCarnage Hall\u003c\/i\u003e, Kaputt’s debut album released by Upset The Rhythm this September, were all written in Glasgow between 2016-2018. Following on from the independence referendum and the subsequent Brexit vote these songs couldn’t help but be influenced by the maelstrom of political hypocrisy and confusion in the air. Other themes prevalent on this energetic corkscrew of an album include the offbeat happenchance of life in 2019, notions of surveillance, identity (personal as well as the biscuit-tin styled persona of the Scottish Highlands), industrialisation and family. There’s a lot of room left for things to turn quietly surreal too. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Upset The Rhythm","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50436547739979,"sku":"1071880","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/2e695661-4db1-4423-a5b4-7829cc9ca0f7_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726918696"},{"product_id":"we-repeat-to-forget","title":"We Repeat To Forget","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBack in stock. We Repeat To Forget\u003c\/i\u003e is London-based Kaputt’s long awaited muscular affair of a debut album, delivered with controlled passion. The album is a non-linear time machine – future repetition that grabs you in the here and now, leaving you unable to get it out of your head, as if \u003ci\u003eStranger Things\u003c\/i\u003e had existed the first time around. \"Whilst Steidinger has all the bite of Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon, her more endearing moments will lure you in ’til the bitter and raucous end. Without abandoning their influences, Kaputt have jump-started a collection of songs as applicable to the die-hard Interpol fan as to the dancefloor junkie.” (KEXP, Seattle). Track \u003ci\u003eBlow Up These Lights\u003c\/i\u003e was picked up by Billy Bragg’s Breaking Rocks compilation, with proceeds going to prison inmates. On the other extreme, you could hear it at Topman on repeat. Either way, NME gave it 4 out of 5. \u003ci\u003eWe Repeat To Forget\u003c\/i\u003e builds on the band’s previous releases \u003ci\u003eFamily Tree \/ Water Makes The Blades Blunt\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDishes\u003c\/i\u003e, termed “a classic” by John Kennedy (Radio X, Dazed and Confused). Steidinger received a Mercury Prize nomination as a founding member of the Go! 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