God Ribbon and the caustic swinging garage rock amalgam of "Goddamn"

 

"and I miss being idealist, you're so boring to be realistic, you don't stick it to the man..." 


God Ribbon is the solo project of Brighton, UK based Thomas Marchant and the wonderfully named and penned "Goddamn" is a bitter pill. It is the lonely realization that your former bloody fists aren't punching anymore, that somehow you have succumbed to the opiates of the masses, that your youthful fevered idealism has been crushed by the hard cold truths about life that are revealed on your phone everyday. Marchant is able to distill this all via a busker punk sound revolving around a passionate vocal aesthetic, dreadfully cool electric guitar and raw blistering garage rock throw downs. 

When Marchant spouts the line "Fussy little head all filled with scrambled eggs a coffee, swollen eyes and a sense of dread..." I feel a bit of sardonic glam, feel a bit of T-Rex and early Bowie and I love that. "Goddamn" can feel like a bit like tying a noose to the rafters or like screaming from your window "I'm Goddamn tired and NOT going to take it anymore!" (is that the line?) or a resurgent mantra that might of infested those irresponsible cultists involved in the January 6th insurrection. Maybe, or maybe it is something to vent to shake your fist at and move on. Anyway, I dig it. Sometimes feeling a wee bit powerless makes brutal fodder for wonderful art. If that is the case, as of late there will be a lot of caustic art made because there is a lot of fucked up things going on in the world at large. 

Goddamn indeed. 

"Goddamn" is from God Ribbon's "Oinker" EP.

-Robb Donker Curtius




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THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:

https://soundcloud.com/god-ribbon

https://open.spotify.com/track/4eijCNRr8TYvGHDlzxNAUl

https://music.apple.com/us/album/goddamn/1617666010?i=1617666014


God Ribbon is a solo artist from Brighton, UK

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