Minneapolis’ electropunk outfit Avenpitch have a new album coming out on Saturday, Cast Off. It’s enough for me to call in sick to work, assume the fetal position and cower in the basement corner for the next five days. I’m a big Avenpitch fan.
There were always 3 types of hyperactive kids in school. 1) The kids who were untreated and out of control. 2) The kids who took their Ritalin regularly (although occasionally sold a pill to friends here and there). 3) And then there were the kids who ground up their Ritalin and snorted it (with a beer chaser). I imagine the Avenpitch guys came from that latter category.
Despite all the synth on Cast Off, there’s plenty of gritty, medium-rare raw rock countered with a worldly sensibility.
I’m especially a fan of tracks like “Desperado†with their frantic punk pace underlined with electronic bleeps and bloops that compel the listener to turn it up.
Here are three tracks off the new LP:
Avenpitch : “Pregnant Pause” (mp3)
Avenpitch : “Maybe I Was Wrong” (mp3)
Avenpitch : “Desperado” (mp3)
Avenpitch play their CD Release Show at Club Underground on January 17 with Military Special, Skittish and Thosquanta.
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