WARKRIME
Get Loose
(No Way)

AMORPHIS
Silent Waters
(Nuclear Blast)

GODHEADSCOPE
A City Out of Sight
(God is Myth)

TUSK
The Resisting Dreamer
(Tortuga)

HYPNOS 69/MONKEY 3
Split
(Rock n Roll Radio)

GENOCIDE
Apocalyptic Visions 

(Van)

HAVOC UNIT
h.IV+

(Vendlus)

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This is a good one. And it does not take long to realize that.  Out on France’s Whosbrain Records, the new one from Germany’s Gentle Veincut is a visceral angular punk record and it has instantly become a classic of the sub genre.  At least as far as yours truly is concerned.  True, everyone and their hip mothers have become familiar with the adjective ‘angular’, but Gentle Veincut exercises that right; the right to be angular, to make jagged angles, to cut raw edges and leave them shining, ready to split wide open the skin of the incautious and the unwary. 

Concrete Landing, their fourth effort, is live and in your face, but also subtle and gorgeous, it is the exact point where the entire back catalogue of Amphetamine Reptile is thrown into a blender with a couple of Sonic Youth releases.  This backwards spawn is forward thinking yet classic and with an old soul at its core. Concrete Landing is highly recommended, pensive and deep, post hardcore of the purest quality, and the best channel for the emotions of the 21^st century. Take the title track for instance where the vocals of She-Dog revolve around the enclosed phrase and total lyrics ‘no way in no way out just a hole in the ground’.  The sense of claustrophobia has never been put to sound with such sincere and nightmarish emotion. The guitar tone is beautiful switching from the light to the strident without ever losing sight of its initial objective while the drums are relentless in power and nature. 

If you were to ask me about the influence that bands like Shellac and The Jesus Lizard had on Gentle Veincut, I’d tell you that no doubt about it, these Germans look up to that sound. But for sincerity’s sake, and this is maybe sacrilegious, this band has stepped up and perfected the sound. Partly because of technological advancements, which have allowed for a sound that will age more than gracefully and partly because the songwriting power of Concrete Landing is incessant and demoralizing it will be harder to top and to craft an ‘angular’ record like this without having to come back to it as a point of reference.  The problem is we will have to inform the world first. Classic stuff.

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