Billy Bao - Dialectics of Shit LP (2008)

Country: USA / Spain
Genre: Noise, Punk, Noise Rock
Label: Parts Unknown Records
Tracks: 10
Length: 29'

Parts Unknown is proud to present the first full-length offering from BILLY BAO. Born and raised on the unstable streets of Lagos, Nigeria before relocating to the alleyways of a then-recently freed Bilbao, Basque Country, BILLY BAO is a rough, dangerous, borderline example of society’s woes turned against itself, of cultural repression made flesh, as it foments into a madness both gleeful and destructive. Befriended by world-renowned noise guitarists MATTIN and XABIER ERKIZIA, the three men formed a personal alliance through the community of punk rock and the blunt-force politics therein. Every musical action BILLY BAO makes is a statement of political and personal intent, of the persecution that boils within him, and yet, across his previous releases (a self-titled CDEP and the Bilbo’s Incinerator 7”, both released by MATTIN, and the more recent Fuck Separation 10” on the S-S label), any notions of political punk rock of the tired, insipid Anglicized version are brutally choked out. MATTIN’s and ERKIZIA's musical backdrops swing with the force of BILLY BAO’s vocal delivery to rattling, devastating effect. Dialectics Of Shit screams freedom; freedom from presumptions, form, and safety. Its ten tracks bludgeon wantonly with black metallic ferox, industrial rhythm jackhammering, and a gauntlet of free-swinging riffs designed to mash ears into the asphalt. With this record, the directions hinted at in BILLY BAO’s earlier works are given new purpose, let loose to manipulate any expectations brought in with the listener. Touchpoints for this sound would include the nihilistic pummel of the BRAINBOMBS, and the aluminum baseball bat dunt of New Zealand post-punkers THE GORDONS, crossed up with an experimental fuckery akin to Japanese mentalists THE HANATARASH. Tracks bounce between left channel and right and skip audaciously in the grooves, but mainly serve to force perspectives, until every head is met eye to eye with his churning, bloodshot worldview. Limited to a first press of 500 copies.

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Dialectics of Shit LP (2008)
Fuck Separation 10" (2007)