"For no reason / Paralysed with indifference / in the eye / Pink colour surgery / Not quite sure all this exists / Waiting for it in bed sheets / Locked-in / Correctly..."
'Post-Post-' a caustic (maybe toxic) soundscape by French junk punk outfit THE PSYCHOTIC MONKS might feel like the awkward unease of being too close to complete strangers or even worse, those strangers taking you for a ride to dark places. Now, I use the phrase junk punk only after it popped in my head in an attempt to describe the bands aesthetic in an abbreviated way and THE PSYCHOTIC MONKS in some way feels anti art, ie junk. Of course, as is often the case, anti-art ends up being highly artful and so it is here in an addictive way.
'Post-Post-' is from the Monks' upcoming new album 'Pink Colour Surgery' dropping February 3rd 2023 via Vicious Circle / FatCat Records, produced by Daniel Fox of Gilla Band and composed in part by improvisations, and arrives as "an act of resistance to the ambient violence". Listening to 'Post-Post-' with it's dystopic sharpness, it's mechanical edges, it's wonderfully pummeling percussion and feral ID-infused vocal aesthetic feels like industrial rock and horror punk had a mutated baby, a cute one but mutated just the same. This sense of abandonment, the act of spiraling down places one shouldn't go feels dangerous. Bad visions might pop in your head, like goose stepping masses, like falls into the dark side of things.
It is lovely in the embrace of horror. Hopefully as a cathartic step away from it. I feel like there are a lot of horrible things happening in society all over the world and especially in America. There is a lock step happening here that makes me worried for my children and my children's children. A new puritanism, Fascism, Christian Nationalism that is opposed to anything they deem as not normal and they will take control over women's bodies and all our bodies and expression if we let them.
Press notes reveal:
The video is directed by Clara Marguerat, who had previously directed music videos for the The Psychotic Monks with “Closure" and “Isolation," and features a performance by the French drag king artist Nixe Amère. It depicts a modern representation of the Nixie tale, with the second half of the video showing her exorcising things she has inside of her through liberating actions. Themes about one's relation to their body and how to interact with other people in a post post- world are abound.
-Robb Donker Curtius
https://soundcloud.com/the-psychotic-monks
https://www.youtube.com/user/ThePsychoticMonks
https://www.instagram.com/thepsychoticmonks/
After two fiery albums, Silence Slowly And Madly Shines in 2017 (Alter K) and Private Meaning First in 2019 (Vicious Circle / FatCat Records), the members of The Psychotic Monks have never ceased to impress us with their maturity and determination to offer a singular stage and discographic presence.
Their 3rd album, Pink Colour Surgery, is announced today for a February 3rd 2023 release on Vicious Circle / FatCat Records. The album is produced by Daniel Fox of Gilla Band and composed in part by improvisations, and arrives as an act of resistance to the ambient violence. Disconcerting at first sight, this new opus operates in the dark a surgery of the ethics which is fleshed out of pink for a staggering metamorphosis. Its very structure embarks us entirely in an initiatory trip full of secret corners, provided that we accept to dive into it, to plunge into it.
Check out the video for the blistering first single “Post-Post-,” out Wednesday September 28th.
"At first, Post-Post- seems to be like a 2-in-1 song,” the band says. “But in fact, it’s more like the two sides of the exact same coin, where the one part cannot exist without the other. It’s about one's relation to their body and feelings, how to interact with other people and how to deal with them in a post-romantic, post-social, post-covid, post-post- world."
The video is directed by Clara Marguerat, who had previously directed music videos for the The Psychotic Monks with “Closure" and “Isolation," and features a performance by the french drag king artist Nixe Amère. It depicts a modern representation of the Nixie tale, with the second half of the video showing her exorcising things she has inside of her through liberating actions. Themes about one's relation to their body and how to interact with other people in a post post- world are abound.
Yet radical, Pink Colour Surgery work is truly accessible to those who immerse themselves in it in depth. One is unceasingly hypnotized, shaken, because its soul flirts dangerously with a furious and oppressive trance. How then the journey becomes addictive, letting yourself slide from one beach to another, sometimes struck, sometimes set ablaze with an unexpected epiphany, because its light irradiates us. Live their music is an intimate, sensory experience, whose deflagration is still received long after.
Pink Colour Surgery is like a hidden room in a house that we have never entered before, and the possibility of feeling good there is not excluded.
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://soundcloud.com/the-psychotic-monks
https://www.youtube.com/user/ThePsychoticMonks
https://www.instagram.com/thepsychoticmonks/
After two fiery albums, Silence Slowly And Madly Shines in 2017 (Alter K) and Private Meaning First in 2019 (Vicious Circle / FatCat Records), the members of The Psychotic Monks have never ceased to impress us with their maturity and determination to offer a singular stage and discographic presence.
Their 3rd album, Pink Colour Surgery, is announced today for a February 3rd 2023 release on Vicious Circle / FatCat Records. The album is produced by Daniel Fox of Gilla Band and composed in part by improvisations, and arrives as an act of resistance to the ambient violence. Disconcerting at first sight, this new opus operates in the dark a surgery of the ethics which is fleshed out of pink for a staggering metamorphosis. Its very structure embarks us entirely in an initiatory trip full of secret corners, provided that we accept to dive into it, to plunge into it.
Check out the video for the blistering first single “Post-Post-,” out Wednesday September 28th.
"At first, Post-Post- seems to be like a 2-in-1 song,” the band says. “But in fact, it’s more like the two sides of the exact same coin, where the one part cannot exist without the other. It’s about one's relation to their body and feelings, how to interact with other people and how to deal with them in a post-romantic, post-social, post-covid, post-post- world."
The video is directed by Clara Marguerat, who had previously directed music videos for the The Psychotic Monks with “Closure" and “Isolation," and features a performance by the french drag king artist Nixe Amère. It depicts a modern representation of the Nixie tale, with the second half of the video showing her exorcising things she has inside of her through liberating actions. Themes about one's relation to their body and how to interact with other people in a post post- world are abound.
Yet radical, Pink Colour Surgery work is truly accessible to those who immerse themselves in it in depth. One is unceasingly hypnotized, shaken, because its soul flirts dangerously with a furious and oppressive trance. How then the journey becomes addictive, letting yourself slide from one beach to another, sometimes struck, sometimes set ablaze with an unexpected epiphany, because its light irradiates us. Live their music is an intimate, sensory experience, whose deflagration is still received long after.
Pink Colour Surgery is like a hidden room in a house that we have never entered before, and the possibility of feeling good there is not excluded.
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