Wetdog
Thu 1 Oct 2009
Post-Pumpkin
Wetdog will be touring the UK in early October with The Slits and together they make a fine pair, blending old-style jams with new unpretentious concrete punk. They’re another noisy post-punk band but fuck it, their music rules.
The band formed about four years ago in London and has been turning a few industry heads with their droney, antagonistic, guitar-driven punk. They’ve featured in Artrocker, Drowned In Sound, Uncut and NME all very positively and have played a recent run of festivals in the UK. Their debut album Enterprise Reversal is magnificent, crafting a fine mix of angular guitars, rolling bass lines and chitter-chatter drum rolls. It’s obvious all three members (Billy, Rivka and Sarah) are fans of The Fall, The Slits and The Smiths, but they’ll stab anyone who dares to criticise their originality.
Of the twenty-one songs on their debut album, ‘Zah Und Zaheet’ stands out as an instant favourite. With a dirty repetitive bass line drilling the song deep into the crusty parts of the brain, it’s a two minute-long, skull-crushing classic. There’s even a subtle Slits reference in there too. All the songs on the album were written over a period of three years, but they all join together relatively easy, filling both sides of the Arctic moss-coloured vinyl they were pressed to.
You can get your copy from the Angular Records store, available in 12″ vinyl as well as on CD and as a digital download.
Posted by Nick Fulton under London, UK
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