"underwater, fill my lungs..."
"Leaking Drains" by South London feral rock duo Scrounge, comprised of Lucy (vox, guitar) and Luke (drums, vox) is a super short potent pummeling angst driven punk toned diatribe. Incidentally, I used to live in an apartment with a battle raged noisy couple next door and flashed on them while listening. It is though, the sheer intensity of rage informed by the world today that makes this so compelling. A follow up to the band's caustic "Ideal" EP (late 2019), the track is informed by the slowly boiling unattended pot on the stove. The band shares:
“This track is designed to be short and sharp, both lyrically and instrumentally. Living standards and life expectancy have dramatically dropped for the majority of ordinary people in the UK over the last generation or so, and it often feels like we’re at once completely weightless and under extreme pressure – a little like being deep underwater.
The demonization and punching-down that constitutes most of the mainstream discourse around debt, housing, poverty and precarity in this country only compounds the issue. The anger and absurdity of a track like ‘Leaking Drains’ is driven by this stuff.”
I love the sounds here and imagine it running longer live, music like this is like beating your head against the wall long enough to realize that we all need to beat down the walls of corrupt power that doesn't give a shit about those living down the mountain.
[In lieu of any impending live action (although rest assured the duo duly squeezed out a socially distorted Brixton Windmill show late last year in between lockdowns), Scrounge will be appearing on a laptop near you at the fierce panda SXSW online showcase in March. Furiouser and furiouser…]
-Robb Donker Curtius
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‘Leaking Drains’ is the brand new single by hectic South London duo Scrounge, aka singing guitarist Lucy and drummer Luke. Their first release since the brilliantly brittle ‘Ideal’ EP from the end of 2019, even by the terse twosome’s normally abrupt standards this tune hurtles by in a covid-sweating, poet-punking panic. Help the raged, indeed.
“This track is designed to be short and sharp, both lyrically and instrumentally,” they pointedly explain. “Living standards and life expectancy have dramatically dropped for the majority of ordinary people in the UK over the last generation or so, and it often feels like we’re at once completely weightless and under extreme pressure – a little like being deep underwater.
“The demonization and punching-down that constitutes most of the mainstream discourse around debt, housing, poverty and precarity in this country only compounds the issue. The anger and absurdity of a track like ‘Leaking Drains’ is driven by this stuff.”
In lieu of any impending live action (although rest assured the duo duly squeezed out a socially distorted Brixton Windmill show late last year in between lockdowns), Scrounge will be appearing on a laptop near you at the fierce panda SXSW online showcase in March. Furiouser and furiouser…
Scrounge , South London, punk, post punk, alternative rock, politico punk, punk diatribe, diatribal rock, Duo, "Leaking Drains", Lucy (vox, guitar), Luke (vox drums)
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