The primal, gothic, post punk homeopathic cozy horror of "Lust For Now" by Genre Is Death, the NYC limitless he/she noise duo of Ty Varesi (guitar, vox) and Tayler Lee (bass, vox), is as abstractly darkly shapeshifting as it is artful. While listening (in the dead of night, by the way) a cool swanky rash of goosebumps skated across the skin on my arms. Why? I don't know, it could have been Ty Varesi's dirty crunchy guitar maneuvers that run the gamut from bending disonnant open chords to sort western noir guitar befitting of 50's detective novels or surf punkism or even otherwordly psychedelic bohemian hallucinations, OR Tayler Lee's sort of horror pop bass lines that stalk and chase after you OR her powerful tightfisted feral vocal countenance that made my eyebrows instinctively raise up. Her bloodletting vocal presence that feels somehow adjacent to Carla Lippis or Diamanda Galas or Johnette Napolitano (at her most steely eyed) feel empowered and, well, incendiary.
In the end, my sense is that "Lust For Now" (and some other songs of theirs that I have perused) are, of course, songs but maybe more so, expresions of pure emotional purging, punturing blisters and daring to let all those uncomforable 'things' out because, well, someone has to, right?
LINER NOTES (excerpted / bracketed):
['Lust For Now', from their new record on "Attractive People", is a track that challenges the Iggy Pop-made-famous punk sentiment 'Lust for Life' by saying 'living life to your fullest is a fight, so get ready to throw a punch'. You can hear the tongue-in-cheek anger through ripping vocals but are asked to dance by the guitar and bass' groovy melodies.]
-Robbert Donker Curtius
LYRICS
Doused
Doused in repression that feels just like lust
Doused in repression that feels just like lust
And I
Ugh
And I
Ugh
Doused
I knew he liked to fight
I knew he liked to fight
I knew he liked to fight
So bite
And fight
Doused
Doused in repression that feels just like lust
Doused in repression that feels just like lust
And I
Ugh
And I
Ugh
I knew he liked to fight
I knew he liked to fight
I knew he liked to fight
So bite
And fight
Lust for now
Lust for now
Lust for now
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THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
https://genreisdeath.bandcamp.com/music
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Genre Is Death is a limitation-destroying noise duo formed by Ty Varesi (guitar, vox) and Tayler Lee (bass, vox). Their sound is abrasive yet melodic, using heavy distortion, dissonant riffs, and reverberating vocals to create music that feels both minimal and overwhelming. While comparisons to Sonic Youth, Pussy Galore and Teenage Jesus and the Jerks are inevitable (and quite welcome), Genre is Death build’s on NYC’s legacy without repeating it… eschewing nostalgia and nihilism in favor of total sonic liberation.
The duo moved to NYC in August of 2023 looking for something more than their mundane lifestyle of day drinking and playing doom metal in friends' basements… Their move to NYC, coupled with their desire to express something, anything, led to the inception of Genre is Death. The pair hit the ground running, playing anywhere and everywhere they could… However, it was only after a chance encounter with 80s noise forerunners Live Skull that the pair was introduced to the strange underbelly of NYC noise and began playing regular gigs with The Art Gray Noizz Quintet and Lydia Lunch. In 2025 the pair played New Colossus Festival, toured with Gogol Bordello, embarked on their first East Coast tour, and played gigs with Cherubs, Bush Tetras, and Jon Spencer. Their upcoming record was recorded by legendary sound engineer Martin Bisi (Sonic Youth, Swans) and is out May 1st on In the Red Records.
Genre Is Death is a limitation-destroying noise duo formed by Ty Varesi (guitar, vox) and Tayler Lee (bass, vox). Their sound is abrasive yet melodic, using heavy distortion, dissonant riffs, and reverberating vocals to create music that feels both minimal and overwhelming. While comparisons to Sonic Youth, Pussy Galore and Teenage Jesus and the Jerks are inevitable (and quite welcome), Genre is Death build’s on NYC’s legacy without repeating it… eschewing nostalgia and nihilism in favor of total sonic liberation.
The duo moved to NYC in August of 2023 looking for something more than their mundane lifestyle of day drinking and playing doom metal in friends' basements… Their move to NYC, coupled with their desire to express something, anything, led to the inception of Genre is Death. The pair hit the ground running, playing anywhere and everywhere they could… However, it was only after a chance encounter with 80s noise forerunners Live Skull that the pair was introduced to the strange underbelly of NYC noise and began playing regular gigs with The Art Gray Noizz Quintet and Lydia Lunch. In 2025 the pair played New Colossus Festival, toured with Gogol Bordello, embarked on their first East Coast tour, and played gigs with Cherubs, Bush Tetras, and Jon Spencer. Their upcoming record was recorded by legendary sound engineer Martin Bisi (Sonic Youth, Swans) and is out May 1st on In the Red Records.
“Genre is Death is smart, feral, uncompromising, and diametrically opposed to an indie scene populated by floppy-hatted nepo babies content to recycle milquetoast rock music until the inheritance comes through.” - Erick Bradshaw, Bandcamp Daily
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