Warp – Bound by Gravity

 

 

Warp – Bound by Gravity
Nasoni Records – 2023
Rock, Stoner, Proto, Metal, Punk
Rated: *****

I never owned a fascist pig. If I had, I probably would have bought some kind of combine harvester or huge baler vehicle and backed over it. I never owned any other pig neither btw. But we of course realize that third track Your Fascist Pigs Are Back is not about those cute pink animals, but about those fascist motherfuckers that pollute the world with their horrible thinking and worse energy. And that song is an example of the way the WARP three have delved more into what their sound entails and what the message is they want to convey. For the three dive deeper into their daily existence and how it translates to what they see, hear, and feel. They then manage to convert that to lyrics and sound. And that as it turns out is this gritty and raw and harsh take on stoner, doom and psychedelic rock, which seems logical when you realize the three are from Tel Aviv, Israel where life is never easy, even though it might be the most liberal city of Israel. The Hunger is perhaps another example of the way WARP transforms their views into more substance driven rock. But there are no qualms about moving away from the message and the content and just going off into a guitar driven spacey freak out. Which they do just as often as just riffing it all towards a homerun. The WARP three share vocal duties and by doing so give their sophomore Bound By Gravity so much depth and identity, it feels at certain moments that you are listening to a completely different record. But then there’s always some punk energy, psychedelic touch or proto metal take to bring it all together again. For that is perhaps the most alluring aspect of it all, that even though there is a lot of harshness, punk energy, there is also an intense groove going on or a cosmic escape towards the void. Bound By Gravity, it seems WARP has found a work around and used the heavy bogged down sounds to propel themselves skywards!

(Written by JK)

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