Marilyn Maria and the potent altrock / feargach punk contextual mayhem of "Self Help Tape" (Official Video)

 

"MOVE AHEAD / LOOK STRAIGHT / WAKE UP EARLY / DON'T HESITATE / LOCK IT DOWN YOU GOT IT MADE!"

The potent feral altrock / feargach punk contextual mayhem of "Self Help Tape" by Eora/Sydney hybrid punk quartet Marilyn Maria charges with a deliciously heavy bass rumble, booming tribal drum shuffles and artfully caustic guitar stabs that feel like a collision of jazz punk and heavy metal, all as a framework for weighty vocal wails and yelps too. This sound that Marylyn Maria expresses is one that has had an explosive amping up over the last decade. A lot of potent, great bands have sprung up. It is an aesthetic that usually punches up, have seeds of malcontent and justice seeking, thus is political or social commentary-esque a lot of the times, is compositionally angular and to me all such bands seem to be on an evolutionary feargach punk scale that began (nearly simultaneously) with Death Grips (2010) out of Sacramento, California and Idles (2009) out of Bristol, England, at least that is my (vague) theory. I thought this broad but specific sound needed it's own genre name and I coined feargach punk about a year ago. Has it caught on, not yet but I am sticking with it. 

"DON’T COME CRYING TO ME THOUGH

DON'T COME CRYING TO ME NO
YOU BEEN WASTING ALL MY TIME
DON’T COME CRYING TO ME THOUGH
DON'T COME CRYING TO ME NO
YOU BEEN WASTING ALL MY TIME
NOW I’M ON YOUR LINE"

LINER NOTES:

"Self Help Tape"

 [YOUR remedy for S&M dynamics in the workforce. Self affirmations to reclaim the 9-5!

This unhinged VHS inspired mantra, pulls from the DEVO and Viagra Boys bag, then crushes, racks and rails it straight off your unfinished paperwork as you walk out of the office fifteen minutes early whilst blowing your boss a kiss.

Success! Manifestation! Liberation is at Hand!]

I am absolutely digging Marilyn Maria's sonic aesthetic, it is a complex one and while descriptors might, in the end, be meaningless, off the top of my head I am feeling an amalgam of Dead Kennedys, Gang of Four, Family Man, The Drones and The Clash (or something like that).

-Robb Donker Curtius
 

THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM 

https://open.spotify.com/artist/3v0XF72z8eUkhtzd5AZOME

https://www.instagram.com/marilyn_maria_band/

https://www.facebook.com/marilynmariaband


Marilyn Maria takes its name from a movie star and a religious saint: a dichotomy that mirrors the Eora/Sydney quartet's theatrical, shrewd and disarmingly vulnerable take on pub-rock. Think the dissonance of The Drones meets the surrealism and satire of DEVO. In a mere two years, the band has independently recorded and released two four-track EPs that traverse a range of sonic palettes and influences: from the self affirming alt-country ballad 'Love Yourself', to politically charged garage with ‘Watching America’ and the haunting murder ballad 'Jack Fell Down’. 2024 marks a new cycle of singles that sees the band continue to push the confines of genre. Married with an incendiary live show that must be seen to be believed, this four piece will be one to watch closely over the coming year.

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