From Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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Recommended if you like Gnod, Discharge, Gwar
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\n Debut album Big Enemy out now via Tartarus, playing Le Guess Who festival<\/p>\n
Rotterdam\u2019s Bombstrap<\/a> are a riotous and theatrical fusion of sound, look and attitude. An embodied version of John Milton\u2019s Pand\u00e6monium with the amp turned up to 11, the band revel in hardcore alternative living, internet wormholes, art-school pretensions and a gungy form of hardcore. Based in and drawing succour from one of the most famous squatted centres in the city, Het Poortgebouw, Bombstrap are a noisy counterblast to the increasing and overwhelmingly witless \u201ccircuses-and-bread\u201d gentrification of Rotterdam.<\/p>\n Visual artist and singer Eva Kah is a living artwork and phenomenal live performer, whose in-your-face act illuminates those grey areas between righteous anger, nihilistic energy and teeth-grating bad taste. Kah\u2019s vocals ape the warning screams and ululations a crone would make over the grave of Achilles. A natural extension of the look, obviously.<\/p>\n Some of the uncompromising attitudes heard in debut album Big Enemy also betray their links to Manchester\u2019s punk and squat scenes; previous members of the extended Gnod<\/a> family have played with them. But the sound is a shifting, amorphous one, permanently up for grabs in the listener\u2019s interpretation. The gravelly mix of chopped-up rhythms and raw, high-decibel punk guitars could even hark back to ancient prog-punk gonzoids such as the Pink Fairies. They are one of the last cries of homegrown, communal, anarcho hippy-punkdom and have all the social and sonic baggage that that entails. There is no career path in sight. Richard Foster<\/p>\n This week\u2019s best new tracksDeep and dramatic \u2026 Clementine Douglas. Photograph: Lily Ajaib<\/p>\n Clementine Douglas\u200b \u2013 So Precious \u200bDJ Heartstring \u2013 3am\/4am (ft Monk, 3ndles5 & Crazymike) Josh Johnson \u2013 Jazz Chord Possession \u200bIsaac Kniveton\u200b \u2013 Love Groove Anamanaguchi \u2013 Sucker Punch \u200bMetoronori \u2013 Lights of the Bay Waterbaby \u2013 Creek Ben Beaumont-Thomas<\/p>\n Subscribe to the Guardian\u2019s rolling Add to Playlist selections on Spotify \u2013 or transfer it to Apple<\/a>, Tidal<\/a> or other services<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Rotterdam, the Netherlands Recommended if you like Gnod, Discharge, Gwar Up next Debut album Big Enemy out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46],"class_list":["post-661733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Self-penned, and gorgeously self-produced with a ribbon of synth melody pirouetting from the bottom of the mix, this is deep and dramatic vocal house from the British singer normally found belting alongside Calvin Harris, Dom Dolla et al.<\/p>\n
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The German dance duo get their countryman Monk to flow over their breakbeat euphoria, while there are shades of Real Lies\u2019 nocturnal social realism to 3ndles5\u2019s spoken English-language verse.<\/p>\n
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Jazz saxophonist Johnson is sideman to Jeff Parker and producer to Meshell Ndegeocello and Flea. His own latest single has two sweetly swaying melodic motifs set against each other, plus analogue synth burbling out back.<\/p>\n
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Like a colourful plastic playground with its edges melting in the sun, there\u2019s a bright psychedelia to the way the British producer\u2019s Kompakt-style techno-pop unfolds, peppy and woozy all at once.<\/p>\n
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The New Yorkers pair crunching, muscular chords with delicate electronic detailing, building up a dense bank of shoegaze that\u2019s illuminated from within by a thousand points of neon light.<\/p>\n
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Dreampop is an overused phrase, but it\u2019s appropriate for the otherworldly beauty and wrongfooting shifts in the Japanese singer-producer\u2019s new album, Forgot Reef Number: this track has a music-box prettiness.<\/p>\n
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We loved her album Memory Be a Blade<\/a> earlier this year, and the Stockholm singer-songwriter is back with this waltzing lullaby, full of her trademark blend of wounded emotion and stoic endurance.<\/p>\n