GENTILESKY - Ways Of Seeing LP

Highly recommended. Johnny Sick approved...

Tighter than nails, and with an irascibly bleak swagger, this indefinably irresistible female-fronted Sardinian/Istanbul supergroup (with members of The Rippers, Love Boat, Maggot Madness, Haywire Desire and Poster-iti) is just what your witch’s doctor ordered. Lightning-fast bass-blast rhythms intertwined with uncontrollable surges of anguished vocals from one Yaprak Kirdok, one of the best new vocalists you haven’t heard yet. Sounds of regional UK compilation cuts from ’79-80 seep in, and a blistering byproduct of invigorating post-punk cultural complexity pours back out, showering you with cuts of paranoid precision and an ever-growing intensity that seems to loom behind each passing track.

A driving repetition, an escalating scale of confrontation, and it’s teeth-cracking tracks like “In The Flesh” that will persevere long after these souls pass on through the ether. It won’t be long until someone covers that one!

RIYL: Sweeping Promises, LiLiPuT, Mo-Dettes, Tyrades, Lizzy Mercier Descloux