New Brutalism

These two records are monstrous! "1999-2001" is a compilation of two of New Brutalism's records and an additional song on top of that. If you're a fan of the late 80's and early 90's noise-rock genre or any bands of the like of Shellac (or half of what Steve Albini touches) this will become an essential to your collection.
To describe this record in one word is a pretty large feat but I think I would stick with "tempermental." It has that gritty noise rock feel but will drop into slow plucking portions with tonnes of reverb. The instruments have a tinny metallic sound almost always with loads of reverb and I imagine the entire place would vibrate when these guys play. Want to add cool points to their pot? Well, the reason for that sound is they build all of their own instruments and equipment from aluminum. I do not think it can get much more cool than that.

"New Brutalism" is an architectural style utilizing concrete and repetitive geometric shape patterns. In many ways this describes their music style in quite an interesting way. Not to mention the fact that they are the architects of their own instruments.
Rather than rambling further I'm just going to post the extremely interesting write-up that was on their last.fm. These art snobs know they're doing what they do just how it should be done. With an amount of pretentious attitude that almost hurts but you can't chalk it up against them when you find yourself digging it just that way.

New brutalism, ethic or aesthetic?

Neither, new brutalism is 3 men, not special men, or famous men, just men. Men with names that don’t matter. New Brutalism is almost 7 years of money wasted or lost, vans broken and bent, blood, sweat, and never tears. New Brutalism is hell made from aluminum; guitars, drums, amps, any chance to apply that gem of a material that is not quite strong enough to be steel, but light enough to be useful, sliced like butter on a Bridgeport mill. New brutalism is 64 songs and counting, named by their number, sterile in origin and cold in execution. New brutalism is pure pretension dressed in black, as colour is for those who have a heart. New brutalism is by no means original, and new brutalism is comfortable with that. New brutalism builds upon a foundation previously laid, based on the minimal and honest, the raw and precise; new brutalism is architecture without architects, the banal and the wasted, the abandoned hulks in the rotting urban cores. What’s important to new brutalism is not the grass you cannot walk on, but the concrete you can, this concrete that has become an extension of our feet, the aluminum instrument an extension of our arms, the machines we hate but we use daily to our advantage. New brutalism is what we make, and what you make of it, but regardless of interpretation, new brutalism exists, and new brutalism works. When new brutalism is hot, let it be hot as the tongue of flame, when it is cold, let it be cold as ice; new brutalism hurts.

God damn art fucks why must you be so good at what you do!

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