Country: UKGenre: Punk, Noise Rock
Label: Art For Blind
Tracks: 14
Lenght: 42'
There are not many UK DIY bands I feel any real affinity with beyond music, but Facel Vega is right a the top of the list of the bands that I do. From their origins as angry teenage punx at State Run, I've been following this lot closely, and over the years they have put out an impressive amount of consistently high quality material. I doubt Facel Vega will ever be cool and reach outside the DIY ghetto, but they are the kinda band that when you mentioned their name to someone in pub conversation it ends up rawkus discussion about who likes them more.
So "The Body" is finally here, after years in the making, and on first listen I have to say it absolutely kicked my fucking ass. To the point I couldn't really think about reviewing it because I was too busy drumming on my legs with my fists. Musically this covers all the ground they have done in their lifespans both in this band and State Run previously as well as expanding out into new musical territories, exploring the make up of their influences in more detail.
This is an album, not a collection of the band's output over the year it was recorded. It explodes from track to track, varying from hip shaking Nation of Ulysses or Rocket From the Crypt esque evil rock n roll wiggles, to passionate mid paced Revolution Summer groans, to full on wall of noise thrash outs, to grooved out passages blending the various explosions. It's sequenced and pieced together perfectly.
One standout track is the title song "The Body" which starts tense, gets tenser, and implodes into a stabbing nervous breakdown and then completely falls apart within about 30 seconds. Just when then the assault is kicking your ass, "Gertrude" kicks in mid album with a Rites of Spring esque heart string tugger. They even have their "pop song" with "I Built Myself", you can almost sing along with that one.
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Facel Vega - The Body (2011)
So "The Body" is finally here, after years in the making, and on first listen I have to say it absolutely kicked my fucking ass. To the point I couldn't really think about reviewing it because I was too busy drumming on my legs with my fists. Musically this covers all the ground they have done in their lifespans both in this band and State Run previously as well as expanding out into new musical territories, exploring the make up of their influences in more detail.
This is an album, not a collection of the band's output over the year it was recorded. It explodes from track to track, varying from hip shaking Nation of Ulysses or Rocket From the Crypt esque evil rock n roll wiggles, to passionate mid paced Revolution Summer groans, to full on wall of noise thrash outs, to grooved out passages blending the various explosions. It's sequenced and pieced together perfectly.
One standout track is the title song "The Body" which starts tense, gets tenser, and implodes into a stabbing nervous breakdown and then completely falls apart within about 30 seconds. Just when then the assault is kicking your ass, "Gertrude" kicks in mid album with a Rites of Spring esque heart string tugger. They even have their "pop song" with "I Built Myself", you can almost sing along with that one.
Basically, this is for me possibly the best album I have heard by a UK DIY punk band, and I don't say that lightly. From start to finish this is simply one of the most impressively noisy, melodic, musical, raging, grooving, cathartic punk records I have heard. -Joe Caithness @ Collective Zine
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Facel Vega - The Body (2011)
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Thanx for that!
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