photo by Stewart Gardiner
I was going to do a conventional track review for Brighton, UK's CLT DRP but after hearing them, seeing the official video for Where The Boys Are and seeing their live performances that might be hard to do. It is, first of all hard, to describe this three piece dynamo in words. When I try to take pen to paper and describe what they do I found myself scribbling over the phrases and then eventually started playing basketball with scrunched up pieces of paper. One thing I kept thinking all the way, through, is the sentence "This is some crazy shit" and it is. It is also extremely brazen, punk meets electro, seemingly feral but super controlled, potent, in your face, blah blah blah. That is where my mind goes blank and is full of words at the same time. The sensation watching the amazingly cinematic indie Official Video for Where The Boys Are which seems to be a passion murder play thing is full of tension, full of horror. Listening to the song itself (before viewing the video) feels like uber female empowerment in an anarchistic way (love that).
As I perused much of their music with even it's mix of hyper fueled tension it does all feel though very controlled. Their musical, poetic moves feel ID but are precise. There is not a sense that, at anytime, they are just thrashing about (which I feel, for example, when I am watching IDLES), no way... CLT DRP's performance, the interplay between all three is to progressively drawn, especially between Scott (guitar) and Daphne (Drums) where the often times off kilter down beats and proto punk punches are exquisitely tight, not to mention Annie's vocal prowess that is equally set in the controlled mayhem perfectly with sort of vocal ticks, growls and wails in her commanding powerfully lyrical pronouncements. Call me crazy but a couple of times my mind flashed on Zack de la Rocha (RATM) when Annie Dorrett is in full possession. I, for one, secretly want to see CLT DRP perform Bulls On Parade (in their own unique way). Please sweet people, just for me.
CLT DRP do refer to the thing that they do musically as electro-punk, for now, I will just call it fucking glorious.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
"Electro-punks CLT DRP have been Brighton's best kept secret for the last year or so, but the hype around this trio are starting to prick ears up everywhere with their glitchy, twitchy songs of female empowerment. Think The Prodigy mashed with Peaches." - Dork Magazine
"Clit Drip are creating something genuinely exciting and refreshing as it’s something most listeners would find hard to assign to a clear genre. This is only a fact due to the three evidently knowing what they want to sound like, how to get it and revel in the pleasure of not knowing where it is going to take them from there." - Milo Dunn-Clarke (HotWax Promotions)
"This is the realisation of a sound that is so current the genre hasn’t been created yet, and this is what makes CLT DRP so exciting." - Kess Anthony (Off The Hooks Music)
"Delivering their immense, thrashing beats, fuzz-filled whirring hooks and soaring, gritty vocals with an empowered energy, each incredible raging cacophony leaves me utterly speechless. With stand-out lyrics such as “Read my mouth, you don’t own me”, CLT DRP’s breathtaking power lies not only in their unique electro-punk sound, but in the poignant, pertinent message they convey." - Mari Lane (Get In Her Ears)
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
"Electro-punks CLT DRP have been Brighton's best kept secret for the last year or so, but the hype around this trio are starting to prick ears up everywhere with their glitchy, twitchy songs of female empowerment. Think The Prodigy mashed with Peaches." - Dork Magazine
"Clit Drip are creating something genuinely exciting and refreshing as it’s something most listeners would find hard to assign to a clear genre. This is only a fact due to the three evidently knowing what they want to sound like, how to get it and revel in the pleasure of not knowing where it is going to take them from there." - Milo Dunn-Clarke (HotWax Promotions)
"This is the realisation of a sound that is so current the genre hasn’t been created yet, and this is what makes CLT DRP so exciting." - Kess Anthony (Off The Hooks Music)
"Delivering their immense, thrashing beats, fuzz-filled whirring hooks and soaring, gritty vocals with an empowered energy, each incredible raging cacophony leaves me utterly speechless. With stand-out lyrics such as “Read my mouth, you don’t own me”, CLT DRP’s breathtaking power lies not only in their unique electro-punk sound, but in the poignant, pertinent message they convey." - Mari Lane (Get In Her Ears)
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