"Faces / Glued to screens / Looped in / Auto-dreams / It's too fast / There's no feel / It's all cold and / It's all steel..."
The boldly brazen punk barrage of "Business As Usual", by London UK explosive post punkers CAN'T STOP TALKING, crafts a mosh worthy sound that crashes through doors and barrels you down. I am loving the constructions here and the decision to create an incredibly heavy sound that also has space around the potent elements. The atmosphere is so well framed so you can hear, feel Jamie Autorino's brazenly cocksure vocal countenance, not only fully barrel chested and rebel rousing but poised to fight the good fight. I am also so enamored with brother Daniel Autorino's guitar work that mixes delicate plucky highlights with sonic bending screams and Hannah Pemberton's rolling big bass in solidarity with Luca Volpi's drumming anchor. In a previous review (of "Hot Stepper") I brought up Butthole Surfers, Idles and Them Crooked Vultures in terms of similar artistic attitudes, their sort of loud / quiet aesthetics, their artful gritty heaviness and joyful brashness. I feel all that here too.
LINER NOTES (about Business As Usual):
[Sickness is a business. We are all kept sedated in a low vibrational state. The narrator feels disconnected from the world around them.]
This is the thing, "Buesiness As Usual" as a statement about the world, as a mantra, especially in a post Trump world, is a punch in the collective gut. The older I get (and I am really fucking old) and I see the pattern of how the have's and the have are used as chess pieces by the leaders of America and abroad, as opposed to equal human beings, to further exquisitely distrubing long range agendas can make one feel numb, so numb that we gravitate to the opiates of the masses (whatever they are at any given moment). I also think about art as a cudgel for political activism and maybe that is why I find musical artist who pepper in political / social commentary in their art so impactful.
-Robb Donker Curtius
LYRICS
Faces
Glued to screens
Looped in
Auto-dreams
It's too fast
There's no feel
It's all cold and
It's all steel
Roadman
Sit down
Would you mind
Your own business
Would you mind
Would you mind
Would you mind
Would you mind
Would you mind
Your own business
God damn all the rat race suckers
Motherfuckers hooked on uppers
Hot damn, he's a wicked man
One night stand
Cool hand
Goddamn, what's wrong with me
What's wrong with you
Vanity
Insanity
All the same
All for business
Ignorance is bliss
Sickness is a business
God damn all the coked-up suckers
Sniffing baggies in the gutters
Hot damn, she's a ricocheted
Renegade
New wave
God Damn, what's wrong with me?
What's wrong with you?
Getting by
Getting by
Getting by
Getting by
Getting by
All for business
Huh
Motherfuckers
Getting by through neon light
Getting by
I'm getting by through neon light
Getting by
God damn all the rat race suckers
Motherfuckers hooked on uppers
Hot damn, he's a wicked man
One night stand
Cool hand
Motherfuckers
Motherfuckers
Goddamn, what's wrong with me
What's wrong with you
The Chicken Wheel will take you to the AP Go Fund Me- and any amount is so appreciated!
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
https://open.spotify.com/artist/3rotuHQvOx7kpA7arxEPTe
https://www.instagram.com/cantstoptalkingband/
https://www.cantstoptalking.com/
CAN'T STOP TALKING are a modern post-punk band driven by raw energy, sharp hooks, and biting lyrics. Their sound is loud, urgent, and cathartic, built for sweaty rooms and explosive live shows. Formed by brothers Jamie Autorino (vocals) and Daniel Autorino (guitar), alongside Luca Volpi (drums) and Hannah Pemberton (bass), the band channel tension and frustration into songs that hit hard, change shape, and stay unpredictable. In under two years, they’ve played over 100 shows, building a reputation for relentless live sets and growing momentum. Armed with big songs and a sense of menace, they’re quickly becoming a band that’s hard to ignore.
CAN'T STOP TALKING, alt rock, punk, post punk, raucous, social commentary, heavy guitars, dirty bass, brash bold assaultive vocal performance, London UK, Jamie and Daniel Autorino, "Business As Usual", brazen, cathartic,
LINER NOTES (about Business As Usual):
[Sickness is a business. We are all kept sedated in a low vibrational state. The narrator feels disconnected from the world around them.]
This is the thing, "Buesiness As Usual" as a statement about the world, as a mantra, especially in a post Trump world, is a punch in the collective gut. The older I get (and I am really fucking old) and I see the pattern of how the have's and the have are used as chess pieces by the leaders of America and abroad, as opposed to equal human beings, to further exquisitely distrubing long range agendas can make one feel numb, so numb that we gravitate to the opiates of the masses (whatever they are at any given moment). I also think about art as a cudgel for political activism and maybe that is why I find musical artist who pepper in political / social commentary in their art so impactful.
-Robb Donker Curtius
LYRICS
Faces
Glued to screens
Looped in
Auto-dreams
It's too fast
There's no feel
It's all cold and
It's all steel
Roadman
Sit down
Would you mind
Your own business
Would you mind
Would you mind
Would you mind
Would you mind
Would you mind
Your own business
God damn all the rat race suckers
Motherfuckers hooked on uppers
Hot damn, he's a wicked man
One night stand
Cool hand
Goddamn, what's wrong with me
What's wrong with you
Vanity
Insanity
All the same
All for business
Ignorance is bliss
Sickness is a business
God damn all the coked-up suckers
Sniffing baggies in the gutters
Hot damn, she's a ricocheted
Renegade
New wave
God Damn, what's wrong with me?
What's wrong with you?
Getting by
Getting by
Getting by
Getting by
Getting by
All for business
Huh
Motherfuckers
Getting by through neon light
Getting by
I'm getting by through neon light
Getting by
God damn all the rat race suckers
Motherfuckers hooked on uppers
Hot damn, he's a wicked man
One night stand
Cool hand
Motherfuckers
Motherfuckers
Goddamn, what's wrong with me
What's wrong with you
The Chicken Wheel will take you to the AP Go Fund Me- and any amount is so appreciated!
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
https://open.spotify.com/artist/3rotuHQvOx7kpA7arxEPTe
https://www.instagram.com/cantstoptalkingband/
https://www.cantstoptalking.com/
CAN'T STOP TALKING are a modern post-punk band driven by raw energy, sharp hooks, and biting lyrics. Their sound is loud, urgent, and cathartic, built for sweaty rooms and explosive live shows. Formed by brothers Jamie Autorino (vocals) and Daniel Autorino (guitar), alongside Luca Volpi (drums) and Hannah Pemberton (bass), the band channel tension and frustration into songs that hit hard, change shape, and stay unpredictable. In under two years, they’ve played over 100 shows, building a reputation for relentless live sets and growing momentum. Armed with big songs and a sense of menace, they’re quickly becoming a band that’s hard to ignore.
CAN'T STOP TALKING, alt rock, punk, post punk, raucous, social commentary, heavy guitars, dirty bass, brash bold assaultive vocal performance, London UK, Jamie and Daniel Autorino, "Business As Usual", brazen, cathartic,
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