Description
This is the US press of the most recent Generacion Suicida release. Originally pressed in the UK by Drunken Sailor records and now available in the US. Released in demo form, in 2022 the band went into the studio and fully re-recorded the songs.
‘What if Blitz hailed from Los Angeles and sang in Spanish isnt a question you hear all that often. Fortunately, we dont need to ask – the answer is provided by Generacion Suicidas latest album, which rages and rattles in all the right places, drenched in the memorable brilliance that powered the Killed By Death compilations (ask yer dad – and if he doesnt know or care, burn his terrible records and make some space to track down the KBD LPs). The bands slogan is musica del barrio, para el barrio – music from the neighbourhood, for the neighbourhood – but it sounds like they could use these hooks to take on the world.
Thats a pretty accurate sentiment as well, because this album was written during the Covid-19 lockdown of 2020, while the world bubbled over with carefully managed misinformation, police violence and the sickening overspill of white supremacys foul brew. If Regeneracion sounds potent, its because there was a lot to be angry about, and the result is arguably their best album yet.
Those chorused-out guitar lines carry shades of deathrock, hints of Manchester circa 1980, elements of something you might call goth if it was several degrees less furious. But theres no doomed romance to this music; its an all-out attack. Street punk with the smarts turned up and an ear turned to the lessons learned from post-punk (but crucially, not the post-punk revival that is essentially shirtless beardy lads chanting non-sequiturs over landfill indie). Chiefly, itll make you wanna get out of your chair, unite your local community and march on down towards your governments centre of operations with a simple-to-use molotov cocktail kit. Its rage is infectious. Its inspired by bleak moments in our recent shared history, but it revels in humans capacity to find strength in each other. And the tunes? Oh damn, theyre good.’
Will Fitzpatrick.
- Format Type: 12″
- Genre: punk
- Year: 2024
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