The slogan of Seismic Wave is “Because Music should hit you like a seismic wave” and for their upcoming release of Primitive Broadcast Service’s new record that slogan could not be any better. Check out our premiere of “Dead Horse (Apologies to Emma Lazarus)”!</b>
Okay, the history teacher in me needs to explain the song title quickly before I burst: Back in 1876 France wanted to donate a gargantuan present to the American people: Lady Liberty! It was erected on Liberty Island ten years after the centennial, but hey - it’s a gigantic thing, right! Inside the platform underneath you can find a poem by Emma Lazarus called The New Colossus and one part of it reads: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free” This became part of the American mantra until some stupid f** tried to establish an authoritarian regime in the USA!
Thus the title of Primitive Broadcast Service’s couldn’t be more fitting to our time, right? Musically it is also indirectly linked to the slogan: It’s free form Punk spreads angular and chunky riffs, pumping, slightly mathy beats and even some nice horns. No, it’s not Ska before anybody asks, it’s much more akin to Free Jazz in attitude and original Punk in sound; maybe something along the lines of NoMeansNo. Their new record Monsters is up for pre-order now (see below) and we need to mention one or two things about it: Recorded at Electrical Audio and the mixes were then delivered to Thomas A. Doyle of TAD who then mastered them and gave them that bass-heavy pumping sound.
The record is fun but at the same time also thought provoking, as is this video, so let’s end on a line by the band: “Dissonance is essential to American life: It is the broken, angry heart of free speech.”
You can pre-order the record from here but now find out if the slogan on the Seismic Wave website hits hard enough!
