Release
date: October 28th 2016. Label: eOne. Format: CD/DD/Vinyl
GOLD
– Tracklisting
Playing
Poor - 3:04
Baby
Teeth - 3:28
Participation
Trophy - 4:11
Mental
Illness as Mating Ritual - 3:04
Ghost
Trash 2:53
Charlie
Chaplin Routine - 2:13
Of
Course You Do - 3:43
I
See You Are Also Wearing a Black T-Shirt - 2:35
Bloody
Like the Day You Were Born - 3:59
I
Have a Prepared Statement - 6:15
Band
Members:
Christian
Lembach: voice and guitar
Casey
Maxwell: bass
Donnie
Adkinson: drums
Review:
Whores.
flip off the world on this record. The whole album is as raw as fresh
road rash and as loud as outlaw muffler pipes. Every instrument and
vocal delivery is slanted with rebellion. The bass is low and
raunchy. The guitar is rancorous and mean. The drums are a toe to toe
boxing match, sounding like a king of the ring punch out. The vocals
are red, sore and coarse.
Whores.
is comprised of three nasty noise dealers who shuffle the deck with a
52 pick up in homicide kings. Stomp, sweat, stop and repeat. This
release is an assemblage of brutal and ferocious noise with a hint of
sludge. The song titles grab hold of your limited attention span, the
lyrics rattle with meaningful prose, and both are delivered with a
spattering of intelligent humour.
'Gold'
is a seamless collection of skull and crossbones toxicity with each
song being a rivet in a gorilla-sized album. Again, the entire record
is ablaze from start to finish, but these tracks really cleave:
‘Playing
Poor’ is a strong opener exhibited with a high voltage detonation
in sound. A fast moving shred fest in league with pissed off farmers
playing electric pitchforks in ripped coveralls.
‘Baby
Teeth’ is punctuated punk that shakes the rust off your haughty
routine with guitars that blast like laser beams.
‘Participation
Trophy’ has just the right amount of anger to recycle your
self-righteous smile with brass knuckles.
‘Mental
Illness As A Mating Ritual’ reminded me that every block has an
aggressive little loud mouth creep who deals in distortion with
purpose to offend.
‘Charlie
Chaplin Routine’ is constructed with huge riffs, which are like the
knives of a juggling mime.
‘I
See You Are Also Wearing A Black T Shirt’ showcases instruments as
a broken falsehood with vocals of rotten belligerence.
‘Bloody
Like The Day You Were Born’ is a metallic sludge clamour that moves
like stop and go traffic on the potholed freeway.
‘I
Have Prepared A Statement” is a bombardier power passage with an
old school feel.
This
record sounds like it was recorded in Fort Knox and it is the
embodiment of blistering punk attitude, covered in a solid gold
knuckle sandwich. A virtual sack full of lead soldiers, each leaving
a welt to your smug face.
This
is easily the favourite cathartic, noise punk album of the year. A
solid gold brick of triumph for these guys whose reward should be the
accolades of this very endeavour.
Words
by Nick Palmisano
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