DESTROY ME AND DESTROY YOU: Review of Vivid Sekt’s “Dance Among The Debris” LP Written by Kenn Kroosåficks
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ENTER FEAR INTERPRETING ENTITIES DEPLOYED DISGUISED IN FREQUENCIES
PDX’s Vivid Sekt’s first full length LP “Dance Among the Debris” was dropped last year on Mass Media records, and I want to express my sincere apologies to the band and everyone who read my Top Six Positive Punk/Deathrock releases of 2011 for CVLT, but this should have been on the top of the list, and only my absent mind is to blame. Which is still no real excuse because this record is so nice I bought it twice. I snagged a copy on plain black, and was so impressed I NEEDED the transparent red limited copy.
From the second the needle drops, this LP kills. A powerful bassline backed by a pseudo-militaristic pounding drumbeat, coupled with a full guitar tone dancing with the bass for prominence. Singing/shouting is high-pitched, throaty, and flows into the music so perfectly, but maintains its command. This thing is fucking hooky as shit. It’ll be damn near impossible for me to review this album without trying to express the music in onomatopoeia and typing out all the lyrics, but I’m gonna give it a go.
Read the rest of the review after the jump!
At the top was the start of Side A: Enter Fear. The intro starts slow but quickly builds and explodes into an anarcho fury. It’s followed up by my favorite track on the record, Sacrifice, it’s slower, with an intro that feels like it’s bleeding out into the rest of the song as it picks up, and the lyrics are friggin’ especially catchy. Confirmation picks up a circle pit pace quickly and the song flanges itself into your face with beautifully long-winded lyrics that shoot into vibrato wails, shouts, and just a frank and tired “YOUR BRAIN” (listen to the track, you’ll know what I mean).
The side closes with Decease to Exist, which starts off with a steady drumbeat, then a choppy guitar that gets filled in with a driving bassline that follows into, you guessed it, catchy fucking lyrics (some mental voices might read this line as sarcastic or bored. If yours did, slap your mental voice, I friggin love catchy shit). Side B kicks off with the slow, chorusy bassline and sparse guitars of Graves of Waste. The bass picks up and the guitar pounds in your face before the drums do and lead into female vocals hooking you in as much as the music so far. After a few lines, SEE SEE’s vocals shout and spit “PRODUCTION ALONG THE LINES OF DEATH TAKE WHAT YOU WILL AND BURY THE REST” in your face the music quickly grinds at you, and pops back and forth between catchiness and driving a truck over you. SEE SEE’s vocals slowly join in with the female voice until his shouts “THE DISAPPEARING ACTS OF INSTITUTIONALIZED WASTE PROFITS PRODUCE COFFINS FULL OF FUCKING DISGRACE” echo and close the track. Post-Debris starts with a slick bassline that’s coupled by drum kicks and cymbal smashing as a guitar drives a hole in your head and a droning moan asks to deal with today, not tomorrow or yesterday. Internalized’s bassline nods your head as a tremolo picked guitar eventually sits on top of it until the drums kick in and the guitar settles to a strum and SEE SEE moans over the track until a cry for help breaks up the middle and it ends with an abrupt shout. Programmed Viewer picks back up a faster pace just in time to close the album with a bass intro that is quickly filled in with vocals slapping you in the face, drums pounding in your head, a guitar hook to die for. The song slows back down to underline its lyrical topic with a driving bass in the back, drums at a solemn march, guitars at a certain sparseness that brings back to a crescendo as SEE SEE tiredly makes his point against the brainwashed masses.
In final summation, unless you hate catchy punk rock with a fair bit of Mob, Zounds, Crisis, Decadent Few, and The Mad Are Sane influence, this won’t be a regretful purchase.
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