![]() ![]() ![]() “If this is love, I want my money back,” she sighs, “’cause I could use the check to spend it on a better heart to wear upon my sleeve.” For an artist so young, she already sounds like an old soul. On the album closer “If You Think It’s Love,” for instance, she pares things back to just her voice, manipulated into an electronic echo, which lets her sharp writing shine. Yet she’s not constricted by either genre or self-definition, instead finding moments to flirt with production styles and sounds that echo her willingness to break from tradition. ![]() Powerfully, Straus has openly embedded her sexuality in her music from the start, turning simple love songs into statements of queer identity and rallying cries for contemporary romance. But her music sounds and feels of an earlier era, its jazzy syncopations and her silky-smoky voice coming together on songs like early viral hits “1950” and “Talia” and welcome follow-ups “Useless Phrases” and “Hit the Back” to form an altogether new alt-pop sound. If that doesn't give you all the naughty grindcore / powerviolence shivers up and down your useless body, I don't know what will.New York singer-songwriter King Princess, real name Mikaela Straus, is just 20. For simplicity sake, we edited this into 4 parts, split across sides A + B. I learned a lot about More Smoke's home of Argentina while compiling this release, including the large anti-fascist and anti-racist movements there - which More Smoke calls upon often in their fleeting, bursts of momentary chaos.ĭiscografia Completa covers about 15 releases and 80+ songs from the band in just about 20 minutes. Not only that, but the variety of timbres (like both drum machines and real drums, shredding guitars, sound samples, etc.) from the onslaught of demos, splits, and other releases they were churning out made the band truly stand out to us. We appreciated their raw, brutal sonic power and artwork that called upon some of our favorite powerviolence acts of the past, and some of those that dominate today (Dropdead, Vaccine, MITB, etc.). More Smoke and Wet Cassettes exchanged likes and follows on Instagram months and months before a first official ask or interaction between parties. ![]() When Wet Cassettes first started toying with the idea of releasing artists that didn't directly involve Billy or myself (Nick) or our friends - the band MORE SMOKE from Argentina was the first group that came to mind. ![]()
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