Sonic Deaf Squad - The Basement Tapes, Recordings From The Vault

 

Sonic Deaf Squad - The Basement Tapes, Recordings From The Vault
Self-released – 2025
Rock, Alternative, Noise, Punk
Rated: ***

Out since the first of February, a brand new collaboration between four artists that you might know from bands like Geishas of Doom, Kintsugi Empire, Atlanta, Ten East, Hilltop Howlers, Tricklebolt, Automatic Sam, Shaking Godspeed, Love Supreme, Giant Tiger Hooch, Eins Zwei Orchestra and probably a whole hell more! Cause this is a band with four highly intuitive artists that always flow according to the energies of the great magnet. They let the wind carry them and do their magic on whatever canvas presented. Case in point, drummer Stephan Konings is also a visual artist and painter. Free flowing, tumbling and gritty, the punk is presented like slow moving experiments, with noisy outburst and with different grooves for the listener to latch on to. The eight tracks, seven of them only with a maximum length of two and half minutes, are only seemingly chaotic, for even though there are these various channels to swim through, you are always able to head out with the current. In all, these Recordings From The Vault, exhibit a lot of drive, and a lot of sixties, seventies psychedelics turned into punk and noise fare from later decades. “The music reflects the unrest of an unstable social climate with raw, experimental sounds capturing the chaos of the modern world.” A statement that you can hear Sonic Deaf Squad deliver with sinewy momentum and sparks flying everywhere…

(Written by JK)

Bandcamp

Geishas of Doom – The First Four Tapes

Kintsugi Empire – Shun

Automatic Sam – Arcs

Tricklebolt – Honey From The Sky