Forming in 2010 in a “drugged up beach-side town”, as sung in “Here Comes the Chain” from their first EP, Long Beach post-punkers The Vivids are set to release double A-side single ‘AK-47’/’Heir To A Void’ via Psychic Healing Network on June 17th.
Renowned for their energy and focus that recall post-/art-punk touchstones like A Certain Ratio, The Names, Wall of Voodoo, Gun Club or Devo and the Talking Heads at their edgiest, whilst flirting with psychedelic guitar leads and the occasional surf warble. The record will be released via Psychic Healing Network (MYSTYRYS, Sarah Johns Music Party) on June 17th, available on 7″ single and digital download.
Imagine Martin Hannett producing The Ventures or the deepest cuts from Factory Records poured through a filter of shoegaze and hard-luck street punk. This is not the sunshiny day music of coastal contemporaries Best Coast or Wavves; it’s music that floats through dingy, smoky beach flat apartments and simultaneously unnerves as it soothes, the washes of guitar grounded by the metronomic rhythm section, coming on like the very beginning of a particularly intense trip as your stomach churns a bit in anticipation of an unknown soon to be revealed and leaving with the low menace of the rumbling ocean outside as you try to fall asleep on a pile of sheets on the floor.
Check out ‘AK-47’ below:
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