Belfast based post-punk quartet Makeshift Art Bar make a serious kind of electronics drive noise on their new EP Marionette. The four tracks cover all the bases that have been in the disgruntled youth playbook for longer than anyone cares to remember: ennui, boredom, and wanting to be heard and seen. O, and loved. That kind of struggle is always an uphill battle, for the band and their audience alike.
They used all the tricks that 21st Century technology has to offer, plus some tried-and-true ones from the past, punishing and distorting their instruments so harshly that the uninitiated will have trouble to make out what the Hell they are actually at any given time. Throw snarling vocals into the muddy, fuzzy mix, and you have caught the sound of the last forty-five years or so of barely contained anger.
Makeshift Art Bar:
Joseph Sweeney (lead vocals, guitar, electronics
Callum McGuigan: bass
Alleyah Boulaich: drums
Callum Sweeney: guitar, lapsteel
Marionette is released on vinyl via Heist or Hit. Available on all the usual digital outlets.
Tracks:- Chocolate
- Crows
- Discipline
- Servant
- 09/06 Edinburgh Psych Festival, UK
- 10/12 The Cluny, Newcastle, UK
- 10/14 Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds, UK
- 10/15 The Quarry, Liverpool, UK
- 10/16 The Abbey, Manchester, UK
- 10/17 SŴN Fest, Cardiff, UK
- 10/18 Exchange, Bristol, UK
- 10/20 Green Door Store, Brighton, UK
- 10/21 Dublin Castle, London, UK
- 10/22 Croc’ the Rock Festival, Lausanne, Switzerland
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