Joanna Gruesome: Peanut Butter - review

Δημοσιεύθηκε: 8 Μαΐου 2015 - 17:10

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Joanna Gruesome

Peanut Butter

(Fortuna POP!)

Punk songs should be nasty, brutish and short, to paraphrase Thomas Hobbes.

Welsh band Joanna Gruesome do short and brutish pretty well, clattering through the 10 tracks of Peanut Butter in 22 noisy minutes. But despite Alanna McArdle's threat to "crush" some antagonist's "tiny skull" in the opening track, the quintet don't really fulfil the nasty side of the deal.

McArdle mostly sings in the hazy style of a late-1980s indie vocalist while jangling melodies gleam amid the sawn-off riffs and drums. The result has a brisk, abrasive charm: winsome indie-pop after a vigorous punk-rock sandpapering.

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