Hotza: Demo 7″

Description

New band coming from the cold Bilbao ready to deliver the dirties Oi!/punk in town. 4 songs with basque lyrics including a 4 skins adaptation of primative and rudimentary 80s Oi! that bring you to mind first 4 Skins mixed with some elements of the first NYC punk efforts like Agnostic Frontm from people coming from acts such as Blessure or Golpe De Gracia. Amazing artwork by Babylon Fell Designs includes insert and is a limited press of 300 copy.

Our take: Discos Enfermos brings us a vinyl-ization of the four-song demo from this oi! band from Bilbao, Spain. With lyrics in Basque, Hotzas sound is dead simple, but built for maximum impact, and any of the four tracks would have found a perfect home on one of No Future Records A Country Fit for Heroes compilations. The first few times I listened, I thought it was pretty bogus that they ripped off the 4 Skins Evil on the last song, but then I read its an adaptation of the 4 Skins original, and I like the way Hotza makes the song their own. The straightforward, dirty production is a perfect fit for Hotzas style. If youre in the market for a contemporary band that draws influence from that classic early UK oi! sound, I dont think you can do much better than Hotza.