Album Primer: Herzegovina's potent jangle art punk distillations on their full length "Emergency"

 

"swimming in plastic seas..."

Listening to songs like the schizophrenic jangle art punk "Fellini's Dreams" and smashing jammer, surf punk-esque "Ego Arcade" from Brazil based Herzegovina and I am pleasantly, ecstatically (in fact) transported to proto punk, pre-new wave, art punk sounds circa 1973 to 1979, maybe the most influential experimental punk stew that would both fuse and forever change blues rock, surf rock, electronic music and punk into a dozen hybrid sub-genres. Within the hills of Rio de Janeiro, Rafael Crespo (guitar / vox), Marcello Fernandes (bass) and Mario Mamede (drums) have been creating their post punk abstracted sound since 2016.

As I listened to these two songs that sit smack dab in the middle of their latest album "Emergency" and the divergent mix of tracks prior and after like the jagged surreal "Black Cat" or the bottom fed bass / guitar assault of the title track or the dark horror pop affection of "Intoxicação" (which is deliciously mind blowing), I thought of an amalgam of so many artists I love like Television, Devo, Richard Hell and the Voidoids and even early Talking Heads.

Herzegovina will take you on a surreal journey full of dark turns and sharp edges. I am digging the ride.

-Robb Donker Curtius

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Hailing from the hills of Rio de Janeiro, Herzegovina, are a trio formed by guitarist and vocalist Rafael Crespo, bassist Marcello Fernandes and drummer Mario Mamede. The group has been mining their brand of exotic, abstract post-punk since 2016 when they released their first EP '5am'. In 2018, the trio released their second EP entitled 'Last Turn', and as we say goodbye to 2020, the band last month released their first long-player effort entitled, 'Emergency' on Mandinga Records in Brazil.

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