Sex Beat
Crack
"Crack" is radical reduction - for the second album, the Berlin band has removed all differences and sums and recorded a punk album in the rehearsal room that needs no further genre designations. DIY is not seen as a gimmick here, but as a necessity with no alternative - "Crack" was created without a studio, without a producer and without a clue. SEXBEAT interprets punk with an awareness of history with a wide range of influences that range from Oblivians to Suicide to Hot Snakes. The sound is based on the 90s sound of the Dischord catalog: bass and drums push forward, guitar and vocals vomit in between. The songs sometimes sound very fragmented and mechanical, sometimes worked out in detail, but always direct and blunt. The lyrics are about everything that annoys you: broken politics, broken society and all the little broken things inside yourself. References range from Gordon Solie Motherf**ers ("Give them a dirty floor for a stage. A five bucks show and I'm stoked for days") to George Orwell ("Four legs good, two legs bad"*) - and in the end even Grammy winner Beck has to make an appearance, because above all it says: "You make me wanna try crack". FFO: OFF!, The Make Up, Parquett Courts, Uranium Club