"it's not that I don't need it, it's just that I don't want it..."
If you only latch onto the wavy, slippery, hyper snaking bass line on "I Love Trouble" by Holyoke, Massachusetts' post punk provocateurs Cheap City then "I Love Trouble" is worth the price of admission but there is a lot more. The more includes highly stylized and admittedly weird musical shapes in the Pere Ubu / Zappa sort of way, feral raucous drumming, a wild eyed maybe manic / maybe the drugs kicked in sort of vocal performance, organic synergistic sounds meets Casio-fied sounds and beautifully odd lyrics. By the way, I fucking love the guitar breaks with the descending guitar hook and the sort of Farfisa-esque keys on the chorus.
"I Love Trouble" from "Ten Years Without Rami Holding" feels like jazz kids discovering proto punk, feels like the Talking Heads and The Dead Kennedys improvising, feels like, well, Cheap City.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
https://www.facebook.com/cheapcitytheband
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1dqvauput5t6W3ySu7a75t
https://www.instagram.com/cheap_city_forever/
https://cheapcity.bandcamp.com/track/i-love-trouble
Formed in 2018 C.E. (Cheap Era), the Cheap City Cultural Ambassadors seek to present a musical interpretation of the city at large. Cheap City’s brand of disco meets punk meets history has been described as “Fugazi writing a disco record.”
Cheap City, "I Love Trouble", art punk, proto punk, progressive, weird, stylized, East coast funk punk, Holyoke, feral drumming, punk,
Formed in 2018 C.E. (Cheap Era), the Cheap City Cultural Ambassadors seek to present a musical interpretation of the city at large. Cheap City’s brand of disco meets punk meets history has been described as “Fugazi writing a disco record.”
Cheap City, "I Love Trouble", art punk, proto punk, progressive, weird, stylized, East coast funk punk, Holyoke, feral drumming, punk,
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