Artificial Go - Hopscotch Fever LP
New DIY outfit from Cincinatti Ohio featuring Angie and Micah from R.O.D. and Cole from The Drin. This is a perfect example of a modern band playing in the same manner of late 1970s post punk bands. Not to be confused with the now codified stylistic definition of “post punk” but the more literal meaning, of the period in which music evolved after the punk explosion and anything went in terms style and sound, as long as it was DIY and pushed the envelope. Bands like Wire, Slits, Raincoats, Scritti Politti, Gang of Four, PiL, Kleenex, or the endless depths of UK bands commonly associated with the term “Messthetics”.
Artificial Go feels like a band riding the wave of empowerment DIY music facilitates and making something natural that doesn’t care to conform to trends past or present. Musically this could be compared to a band like The Slits that fits firmly in the periphery of several music styles, rooted in DIY punk, but those roots stretching deep and drinking from the well of plenty of other styles. Less dub and reggae inspired as the Slits, but feels like a similar progression of musicians unsatisfied with rigid genre exercise. Highly recommended.
New DIY outfit from Cincinatti Ohio featuring Angie and Micah from R.O.D. and Cole from The Drin. This is a perfect example of a modern band playing in the same manner of late 1970s post punk bands. Not to be confused with the now codified stylistic definition of “post punk” but the more literal meaning, of the period in which music evolved after the punk explosion and anything went in terms style and sound, as long as it was DIY and pushed the envelope. Bands like Wire, Slits, Raincoats, Scritti Politti, Gang of Four, PiL, Kleenex, or the endless depths of UK bands commonly associated with the term “Messthetics”.
Artificial Go feels like a band riding the wave of empowerment DIY music facilitates and making something natural that doesn’t care to conform to trends past or present. Musically this could be compared to a band like The Slits that fits firmly in the periphery of several music styles, rooted in DIY punk, but those roots stretching deep and drinking from the well of plenty of other styles. Less dub and reggae inspired as the Slits, but feels like a similar progression of musicians unsatisfied with rigid genre exercise. Highly recommended.
New DIY outfit from Cincinatti Ohio featuring Angie and Micah from R.O.D. and Cole from The Drin. This is a perfect example of a modern band playing in the same manner of late 1970s post punk bands. Not to be confused with the now codified stylistic definition of “post punk” but the more literal meaning, of the period in which music evolved after the punk explosion and anything went in terms style and sound, as long as it was DIY and pushed the envelope. Bands like Wire, Slits, Raincoats, Scritti Politti, Gang of Four, PiL, Kleenex, or the endless depths of UK bands commonly associated with the term “Messthetics”.
Artificial Go feels like a band riding the wave of empowerment DIY music facilitates and making something natural that doesn’t care to conform to trends past or present. Musically this could be compared to a band like The Slits that fits firmly in the periphery of several music styles, rooted in DIY punk, but those roots stretching deep and drinking from the well of plenty of other styles. Less dub and reggae inspired as the Slits, but feels like a similar progression of musicians unsatisfied with rigid genre exercise. Highly recommended.
